Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] DTC: Begin the path to sane literals and expressions.

From: David Gibson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:33:09 +1000

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:36:57AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> So, like, the other day Segher Boessenkool mumbled:
> > > Property names have been limited to start with
> > > characters from the set [a-zA-Z,._#?].  That is, the
> > > digits and the expression symbols have been removed.
> > 
> > This cannot work; many property names start with a digit,
> > for example.
> 
> Are any of those property names in use in any
> of our DTS files or b-w-o.txt?  Not really, no.
> In fact, with this lexical change, all of our
> DTS files still produce byte-identical results.
> 
> I really think this is one of those areas where
> we may need to stray from the other guideline.
> 
> Is there a compelling reason somewhere?  Really?

We may have deprecated te '64-bit' and '32-64-bridge' properties in
cpu nodes for the flattened tree, but it already exists in a great
number of Apple and IBM trees.  It would be poor form for dtc to choke
on these trees.

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