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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