use of fsl, in lite5200b.dts in git current
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Nov 9 07:56:24 EST 2007
Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 11/8/07, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
>> Jon Smirl wrote:
>>> No one has answered this yet. It makes no sense at all to mix use of
>>> the vendor prefix on some compatible entries and not on others. The
>>> syntax of compatible entries needs to be consistent.
>> Right, the vendor prefix should always be used. Not all of the existing
>> trees are perfect, however, so sometimes the code needs to stay
>> compatible, especially when the device tree is difficult to change.
>
> A bunch of patches are going to have to go into the kernel. Code
> expecting tree attributes without vendor prefixes is all over the
> kernel.
It's just nonstandard properties that need it, not all of them.
> All of the dts file need to be patched up, etc.
I don't think *all* the dts files have problems...
> As far as I know the only dts using vendor prefixes in the compatible
> attributes is 5200lite one for the gpt entries. Everything else will
> need to be changed.
Look a little harder. Many of the Freescale boards/devices do it right
-- and yes, we need to fix the ones that don't.
-Scott
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