[PATCH] Documentation/devicetree: make semantic of initrd-end more explicit

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Apr 25 22:27:57 EST 2013


Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt
index ef9d06c..0efedaa 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.txt
@@ -191,9 +191,11 @@ Linux it will look something like this:
 	};
 
 The bootargs property contains the kernel arguments, and the initrd-*
-properties define the address and size of an initrd blob.  The
-chosen node may also optionally contain an arbitrary number of
-additional properties for platform-specific configuration data.
+properties define the address and size of an initrd blob.  Note that
+initrd-end is the first address after the initrd image, so this doesn't
+match the usual semantic of struct resource.  The chosen node may also
+optionally contain an arbitrary number of additional properties for
+platform-specific configuration data.
 
 During early boot, the architecture setup code calls of_scan_flat_dt()
 several times with different helper callbacks to parse device tree
-- 
1.8.2.rc2



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