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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>2014-06-26 17:52:54 +0200
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>2014-07-24 01:33:01 +0200
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of: Add todo tasklist for Devicetree
There are a number of outstanding workitems that need to be done on the device tree code. Start tracking them so that interested developers can pick up a task and start working on it. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
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+Todo list for devicetree:
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+=== General structure ===
+- Switch from custom lists to (h)list_head for nodes and properties structure
+- Remove of_allnodes list and iterate using list of child nodes alone
+
+=== CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC ===
+- Switch to RCU for tree updates and get rid of global spinlock
+- Document node lifecycle for CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC
+- Always set ->full_name at of_attach_node() time
+- pseries: Get rid of open-coded tree modification from arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c