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

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:57:51 +0200

>>>> 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.

Huh?  "64-bit" isn't deprecated I hope, just the "32-bit" thing
(that never was defined) is.

> It would be poor form for dtc to choke on these trees.

Yah.  Small incompatibilities add up :-(

Segher