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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: real pedantic whining: "devicetree" isn't really a single word
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 08:45:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140703064504.GN14257@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOpc7mEjkLo6Z12tVVH8PeY3Pv6JkoY0TXH_kz82jwbDjzW9tg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:12:33PM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> Oh, please bear with us germans, indians, italians and whoever we are
> with our limited pidgin-english knowledge.
> 
> No, to turn it the other way around: it's great that a native-english
> speaker with knowledge and taste of the language goes over the
> documentation.
> 
> And at least it's now called "device tree", and no longer just "of"
> (from open firmware) :-)

Yeah, naming functions of_* is one thing, but writing of in text
looks just ugly and confusing. Writing OF is only slightly better.
Speaking of "device tree" is surely better, but unfortunately this is such
a generic term. What else do we have?

- Flat Device Tree (FDT), describes the binary format
- Device Tree Blob (DTB), same as FDT
- Device Tree Source (DTS)

There's just no good name for this mechanism.

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-03  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-02 19:01 Robert P. J. Day
2014-07-02 20:12 ` Holger Schurig
2014-07-03  6:45   ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2014-07-03 11:40     ` Robert P. J. Day

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