[PATCH] [POWERPC] 4xx: Add aliases node to 4xx dts files
Jon Loeliger
jdl at jdl.com
Tue Dec 18 00:46:48 EST 2007
So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:10:02PM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >
> > Hopefully some version that stores path strings in the properties
> > in /aliases, and not phandles.
Yes.
> > Or does that current version of DTC
> > do that correctly already, and just has an inconvenient source
> > syntax?
Feh. If there is an "inconvenient source syntax", or any other
annoying irregularity, please, by all means, suggest improvements
and offer patches!
> I don't think anyone's actually gone and generated phandles in
> /aliases, although it was suggested early on. The syntax is
> foo = < &bar >;
> to generate a phandle and
> foo = &bar;
> to generate a path.
>
> I was a bit worried about confusion between these forms, but at least
> Kumar and myself came up with this syntax independently, which
> suggests it's not too surprising to most people, and no-one had any
> other suggestions.
To be a bit more complete, Kumar and I discussed this as well.
jdl
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