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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 04:35:42 +0100
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Introducing Device Tree Overlays
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 09:31:04PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> The following patchset introduces Device Tree overlays, a method
> of dynamically altering the kernel's live Device Tree.

It would be nice to know the motivation for this code.

What is the use case? What problem or issue is being addressed?

Thanks,
Richard