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

[David Miller]

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:42:33 +1000

> 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).

I already voiced my concerns.