From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:6f8:1178:4:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1X2alu-0004tU-HX for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 06:45:31 +0000 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 08:45:04 +0200 From: Sascha Hauer Message-ID: <20140703064504.GN14257@pengutronix.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: real pedantic whining: "devicetree" isn't really a single word To: Holger Schurig Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" 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 -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox