[PATCH v4 2/3] dtc: Support character literals in cell lists

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Mon Sep 19 12:00:34 EST 2011


On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:49:21AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:16:30PM -0700, Anton Staaf wrote:
> > > With this patch the following property assignment:
> > > 
> > >     property = <0x12345678 'a' '\r' 100>;
> > > 
> > > is equivalent to:
> > > 
> > >     property = <0x12345678 0x00000061 0x0000000D 0x00000064>
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Anton Staaf <robotboy at chromium.org>
> > 
> > Acked-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> 
> So, I *think* we want to wait until the question of size
> is resolved some more, right?  Or, take this in any event
> as "without a type indicator they are all 32-bit values"?

No this patch is fine to take without changing the cell size
semantics.  It's just that it becomes a lot more useful when we do get
those.

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