From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:52:54 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: of: Add todo tasklist for Devicetree
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=848007ba9eeae9436d988e3266f4e229ce71de87;p=linux-beck.git

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