Device tree node names

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Fri Aug 17 21:36:11 EST 2012


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:36:31AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:

> The main "rule" for node names is that a user browsing the device tree
> can easily determine what something is.  Thus "ethernet" instead of
> "DEC,21140".

Does this actually buy us much?  It seems like it's something that's
much better addressed through comments in the device tree than with
syntax.


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