28 Jul
2008
28 Jul
'08
8:59 p.m.
Ben Warren wrote:
Uh, yeah. I like the idea of a central repo for hardware info, and the device tree concept is good. My point is that the syntax, while concise and exact, can be intimidating. Just look at the amount of traffic on the mailing lists of people that don't understand what all the fields mean when specifying IRQs etc. Anything we can do to make it less so for noobies is a good thing for everybody.
Sure, no argument there -- enhancing the dts syntax with symbolic constants, computational expressions, and macros should make things like interrupt specifiers and maps a lot clearer.
-Scott