[RFC/PATCH 2/3] of: add of_lookup_stdout() utility function

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Wed Aug 6 17:42:33 EST 2008


Hi Grant,

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:34:04 -0600 "Grant Likely" <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Michael Ellerman
> <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 00:02 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> >> From: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> >>
> >> of_lookup_stdout() is useful for figuring out what device to use as output
> >> for early boot progress messages.  It returns the node pointed to by the
> >> linux,stdout-path property in the chosen node.
> >
> > Nice. You don't feel like converting all the places that currently do it
> > by hand to use this do you :)
> 
> Yep, I'll do this.  :-)

Could you also send an email to Dave Miller to see if he has any objections
to this function being generic (since the Sparc guys share this code).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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