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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl•com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson•dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Stefan Roese <sr@denx•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] 4xx: Add aliases node to 4xx dts files
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:46:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1J4GIy-0006Xp-RT@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:33:42 +1100." <20071216223342.GD26307@localhost.localdomain>

So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:10:02PM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > 
> > Hopefully some version that stores path strings in the properties
> > in /aliases, and not phandles.

Yes.

> > Or does that current version of DTC
> > do that correctly already, and just has an inconvenient source
> > syntax?

Feh.  If there is an "inconvenient source syntax", or any other
annoying irregularity, please, by all means, suggest improvements
and offer patches!

> I don't think anyone's actually gone and generated phandles in
> /aliases, although it was suggested early on.  The syntax is
> 	foo = < &bar >;
> to generate a phandle and
> 	foo = &bar;
> to generate a path.
> 
> I was a bit worried about confusion between these forms, but at least
> Kumar and myself came up with this syntax independently, which
> suggests it's not too surprising to most people, and no-one had any
> other suggestions.

To be a bit more complete, Kumar and I discussed this as well.

jdl

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-15  7:55 [PATCH] [POWERPC] 4xx: Add aliases node to 4xx dts files Stefan Roese
2007-12-16  6:19 ` David Gibson
2007-12-16 14:58   ` Josh Boyer
2007-12-16 18:10     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-12-16 18:45       ` Josh Boyer
2007-12-16 22:33       ` David Gibson
2007-12-16 22:44         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-12-17  0:00           ` David Gibson
2007-12-17 13:46         ` Jon Loeliger [this message]
2007-12-16 22:30     ` David Gibson

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