[PATCH 18/21] [POWERPC] bamboo: remove bogus "ranges" property in EBC node

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Dec 22 09:08:45 EST 2007


On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:16:55 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 06:09 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:39:35 +1100
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > This removes a bogus empty "ranges" property in the EBC device node
> > > of the Bamboo board device-tree.
> > > 
> > > The "ranges" property will be created by the boot wrapper, there is
> > > no need to have an empty property there, and that causes recent
> > > dtc to complain.
> > 
> > The wrapper doesn't do anything with EBC for bamboo because the EBC
> > stuff is a nightmare on this board.  The patch can stand, but I'll
> > fixup the comments in the changelog.
> 
> The wrapper could still create ranges for the chip select settings no ?

It could.  It doesn't though.  Perhaps our interpretation of "will be
created" differed.

> In any case, empty "ranges" is bogus.

Correct.  Which is why I said I'd just edit the changelog :).

josh



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