[RFC][PATCH 6/8] Walnut DTS

[Segher Boessenkool]

> Right.  See, there are people like me that don't know what the  
> default values
> are/should be.  Having them explicitly listed, even if it's  
> redundant, serves
> as a good learning aid.

_Only_ if it's redundant.  Not if it has a meaning different
from having the property not there at all.

> Now, realistically I do know what the default is in this case.  But  
> I only
> learned that recently.  With hopefully more people starting to port  
> things
> over to arch/powerpc it might be a good idea to document them at  
> least.

Definitely, we need more good examples, and maybe some
public stonings or something like that.

> Otherwise, I fear we'd wind up repeating ourselves over and over.
>
> Could we get a 'thou shalt not rely on defaults' added to
> booting-without-of.txt?  Or maybe something less draconian ;).

Such a statement is too vague to be meaningful.  It would
be a good idea in separate cases; but _do_ describe it more
carefully than just talking about "defaults", and _do_ put
a comment at any such entry that this is different from how
Open Firmware defines this, so that people looking at the
Linux code won't get hopelessly confused.


Segher