In message 528646bc0610100013h7a7fd1d3pe66473431000dc28@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Where then should I take discussion that is directly related to improving the quality of the flattened device tree code held in that tree? Would you really prefer that discussion to be taken off line
No, definitely not. Discussing the stuff here is just fine. Also posting patches here is fine (and the only "official" way for patch submissions so far).
and then a full patch set be dumped on the mailing list wholesale?
If this is a clean set of patches this is just fine with me. Actually this is the current "official" way to do it. Even if you provide a git repo for easy merging, you are still required to post the set of patches here on the list so everybody can see and discuss these.
It is MUCH easier to review a patch than analyzing what might have been change in another repo.
The fdt support patches are non-trivial. You've already rejected them here. Why do you want to eliminate an effort to improve them from this list?
I definitely don't want to do this.
But on the other hand, I think it makes no sense if we start posting patches here that are against N private repositories somewhere else.
If you find a problem with the code, then post a follow-up (eventually including an incremental patch) against a patch that was posted here on this mailing list.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk