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

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Aug 8 08:36:15 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:46 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> 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.
> 
> I thought linux,stdout-path is deprecated are we're supposed to be
> using the aliases node instead?

You are mixing two completely different things afaik.

Ben.





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