[PATCH 1/4] Allow nodes to be refrenced by path at the top level.

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Nov 10 09:42:45 EST 2010


On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:44:22AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Jon Loeliger <jdl at jdl.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 03:55:04PM -0700, John Bonesio wrote:
> >> > When nodes are modified by merging device trees, nodes to be updated/merged
> >>  can
> >> > be specified by a label. Specifying nodes by full path (instead of label)
> >> > doesn't quite work. This patch fixes that.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: John Bonesio <bones at secretlab.ca>
> >>
> >> Acked-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> >>
> >> If we go where I'm beginning to suspect we want to with deprecating
> >> some existing syntax, this may become moot.  However as long as we're
> >> using reference like syntax for the merging, we should accept all the
> >> references that are valid elsewhere.
> >
> > Are we read for just this patch, or the series?
> > I didn't see any more commentary about the remaining 3 patches.
> 
> Hold off on the remaining three.  Also, this patch is based on the
> commits currently in my tree which have also been acked:
> 
> git://git.secretlab.ca/git/dtc.git master

Yeah, what Grant said.  I'm happy with patch 1/4, but the others need
more discussion / work.

-- 
David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
				| _way_ _around_!
http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson


More information about the devicetree-discuss mailing list