Proposal: new device-tree syntax and semantics for extendinginformation from included dts files

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sat Oct 16 10:51:20 EST 2010


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:35 PM, John Bonesio <bones at bonesio.net> wrote:
[snip]
> If we had:
> /remove-node/ foo;
>
> Then we could make the parser give an error on:
> /remove-node/ foo {};
>
> We could even possibly make
> /trim-node/ foo;
> an error.
>
> This way there is less room for confusion or trip-ups.
>
> What are your thoughts?

I'm still partial to using a single keyword for both use-cases, but
most of the implementation will be the same regardless of which is
chosen.  Go ahead and code it and post a patch.

g.


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