On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Rob Herring <robherri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/15/2013 05:55 AM, Dong Aisheng wrote: >> We meet some boards having a lot of pin conflicts between different devices, >> only one of them can be enabled to run at one time. >> >> e.g. imx6q sabreauto board, i2c, spi, weim, flexcan, uart and etc involved >> with pin conflict. >> >> Instead of changing dts manually or adding a lot dts files according to >> different device availability, we provide feature to dynamically update the >> device node status via command line, then those devices involved with >> pin conflict can be enabled or disabled dynamically. >> >> It's conveniently to use and can save a lot dts board files, also can >> permenantly fix the pin conflicts issue. > > This doesn't scale either with updating of lots devices or when the next > person comes along and wants to edit another property. > > This is something u-boot is perfectly capable of handling and updating > status is something lots of boards already do.
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