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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/8] OF: Introduce DT overlay support.
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On Wed, 14 May 2014 15:03:35 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Grant Likely
> <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> >> +config OF_OVERLAY
> >> +     bool "OF overlay support"
> >> +     depends on OF
> >> +     select OF_DYNAMIC
> >> +     select OF_DEVICE
> >> +     select OF_RESOLVE
> >> +     help
> >> +       OpenFirmware overlay support. Allows you to modify on runtime the
> >> +       live tree using overlays.
> >
> > Should not be a user-visable option. Drivers using it should select it
> 
> Why not? It's up to the (final) user to use it, or not.
> 
> > or otherwise cause it to be enabled.
> 
> Why should this be driver-specific? Shouldn't this just work with all drivers?

This patch is just the infrastructure. The actual user-visible option
is in another patch.

g.