From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:42:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-pf0-x232.google.com ([IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::232]:54138 "EHLO mail-pf0-x232.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S23990425AbdKMMmo0tBQS (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:42:44 +0100 Received: by mail-pf0-x232.google.com with SMTP id b6so11493600pff.10 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 04:42:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gimpelevich-san-francisco-ca-us.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dr8qqIOPHfmd5wfIKZPfb/HC8aWMB/02PW8XS0a69m8=; b=P+Yy9XGP0qHFkeACMdACiI8nKt+ZWBM6rfCKl5s4hzSHPo/IZGzZRZEmc8JDR5jIsZ 0snza7YKQe0xmzzMKJcxAJpeoyXVXjtB1XbJZhfWAA67Mv8GSmmBDzAKED3MoYl8MZZ9 EmUlBF+hdYj32R2GdiP06UzMl2GV3Y0xeciKTirg9ASVSViwHznnQj9s1+EAqJJbzrnW fEaFkCmUhUnu/KiUpHXgzlPPHqaagH2N9niaS7WPFn+RMTzzuFn1ShN6lErEe/Us1N4F VBVbNoL9GqGGKL2/d4B8t2W2XeOxHlwsXkQ7FZ8C/WycCiFyHl7yzQxdCMjW/AcoeVdv zbww== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dr8qqIOPHfmd5wfIKZPfb/HC8aWMB/02PW8XS0a69m8=; b=YBsTMG+ofV/bocVLm2Nq57uNkpIZNVAq0sqlN8LXIqeHsPc3ijQ828hQTxt4P3KSwj MqY0U0KiyIIGodbFcEYyY2DHIO6Jv3JMnMnHOdvptbIUZK4qC4+V2Q5zh8+urJCTGRiN 9Sdkh2LqTpaygFqdzIJ3fr8f1shqMSbUbhQOkNlbsWFNfURaQ0UZ6ZmE6cBebqKBW647 nifqiAvJ7u2upTW8x0iptDm9ah2L6yk0B9KV1KVCRreaBtj0PpvUBKOnP3JOojRyA+CB kqOG4iDl7x82ecyd2cUky5YZ0tABCPVu5DNs4BvZDaXOfzmTy5BVqYHYWPpZsyQ0Pu8p MIIQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AJaThX58YsGXT2kK04vxH2lk0KDJevdbMvwiOnWLHzyUkmA9znf5yWDq wERYl10lS6KwmA4L2RdF8WTrdg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMbMKL349eCSlQ+V47IvEUF2PiQUWRqFQymg0nDTbkrhUlbRrDVrmawvuU/zmAqoItZHDZMUXA== X-Received: by 10.159.204.146 with SMTP id t18mr8629633plo.83.1510576957737; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 04:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [75.208.18.0] (0.sub-75-208-18.myvzw.com. [75.208.18.0]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b9sm26274115pgu.20.2017.11.13.04.42.36 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 13 Nov 2017 04:42:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1510576953.9806.1.camel@chimera> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: implement a "bootargs-append" DT property From: Daniel Gimpelevich To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: James Hogan , Linux MIPS Mailing List , Rob Herring , Frank Rowand , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Linux-Renesas Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 04:42:33 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: <1510420788-25184-1-git-send-email-daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> <20171113112312.GZ15260@jhogan-linux> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 60852 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 13:31 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > I've seen other use cases, e.g. the extension of the du node's > "clocks" and > "clock-names" properties from arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7795.dtsi > to > arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7795-salvator-x.dts. > > To avoid the proliferation of "-append" versions of existing > properties, what > about handling this in dtc, by adding support for an > "/append-property/" > keyword? That would not address use case #2 that I mentioned, where the dtb would have a "bootargs-append" property but no "bootargs" property.