Fw: [PATCH 2/15] Automatically lmb_reserve() initrd
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Mar 14 05:00:55 EST 2007
> I understand - I guess I am just thinking of the case where someone didn't
> define the property because they were not aware of it - esp in this case
> where the existence of the property name is all that is required for the
> value to be filled in properly by the init code. Instead of just setting
> the start/end to 0 - maybe include a message something like (even if
> debug) "No initird-start/end property found - setting to 0" - just a minor
> example. The larger point also being that defining dts files and
> properties may be a new thing for many people with the new support - might
> be helpful to surface missing properties when appropriate (I'm not
> condoning mass amounts of messages for everything).
I think the proper thing to do instead is improve the documentation :-)
Ben.
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