From 848007ba9eeae9436d988e3266f4e229ce71de87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Grant Likely Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:52:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- Documentation/devicetree/todo.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/todo.txt diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/todo.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/todo.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c3cf0659bd19 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/todo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Todo list for devicetree: + +=== 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 -- 2.20.1