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

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Nov 4 11:15:57 EST 2010


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.

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