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Timur Tabi wrote:
> Milton Miller wrote:
> 
>> Why should what the hvc driver support have any effect on
>> what the binding should be?
> 
> Because my hypervisor console driver uses the hypervisor console/tty subsystem.
>  If the subsystem assumes one stdout/stdin device, then I must abide by that.

So fix the subsystem, don't use the subsystem, or live with the fact 
that you support a subset of what the device tree can express.  Don't 
cripple the device tree because of that.

-Scott

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Timur Tabi wrote:
> Milton Miller wrote:
> 
>> Why should what the hvc driver support have any effect on
>> what the binding should be?
> 
> Because my hypervisor console driver uses the hypervisor console/tty subsystem.
>  If the subsystem assumes one stdout/stdin device, then I must abide by that.

So fix the subsystem, don't use the subsystem, or live with the fact 
that you support a subset of what the device tree can express.  Don't 
cripple the device tree because of that.

-Scott