[RFC/PATCH 2/3] of: add of_lookup_stdout() utility function

[Segher Boessenkool]

> It's not what we do with flattened device trees blobs though.  In the
> flattened tree we're not using a /chosen/stdout property, just the
> linux,stdout-path one.
>
> The question that remains is; should there be?  Should the dt blobs
> use /chosen/stdout also?  (I'm not familiar enough with real OF to
> know the answer.  I'm assuming that an instance value is not the same
> as a phandle).

ihandles and phandles are not the same thing in OF.  Since in the
"flat world" we cannot have instances, we should use phandles instead
of ihandles for the things in /chosen.  I thought we agreed on that
already, perhaps I am wrong?


Segher