[Skiboot] [PATCH] Stop adding legacy linux, phandle to device tree, just add phandle

[Vasant Hegde]

On 07/15/2016 11:22 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
> Since the very first commit of a skeleton powernv platform in Linux,
> the kernel has been able to deal with phandle rather than linux,phandle.
>
> Thus, every kernel in the real world that has a hope of even getting to
> a twinkle in the eye of booting knows about phandle.
>
> So, we don't need to add linux,phandle along with phandle as it's just
> redundantly redundant.

Looks good. I did a quick search in linux kernel code and looks like its safe to 
remove.
Hopefully one day PowerVM folks also provides phandle property instead of 
ibm,phandle!

-Vasant

>
> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   core/fdt.c | 5 -----
>   1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/core/fdt.c b/core/fdt.c
> index a22a84028217..79122b7cdddb 100644
> --- a/core/fdt.c
> +++ b/core/fdt.c
> @@ -55,11 +55,6 @@ static void dt_begin_node(void *fdt, const struct dt_node *dn)
>   {
>   	save_err(fdt_begin_node(fdt, dn->name));
>
> -	/*
> -	 * We add both the new style "phandle" and the legacy
> -	 * "linux,phandle" properties
> -	 */
> -	dt_property_cell(fdt, "linux,phandle", dn->phandle);
>   	dt_property_cell(fdt, "phandle", dn->phandle);
>   }
>
>