From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Subject: Re: Device Tree "Status" Property Question Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:37:18 -0600 Message-ID: <4B42517E.6000609@freescale.com> References: <1262192287.3811.4.camel@johns> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1262192287.3811.4.camel@johns> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org To: John Schmoller Cc: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org John Schmoller wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm currently working with U-Boot to pass POST results to Linux in an > FDT. To do this, I'm intending to use the "status" property, as > documented in ePAPR 1.0 (I'm using PowerPC). My question involves the > "fail-sss" property value. What is the intention of "sss"? Is it meant > to be 3 digit error code, or a string, or what? I'd like to append a > failure message to the value if that's appropriate. Something like > "fail-Widgit X did not respond" or some such thing. Please let me know > if that's not the intended use of the "fail-sss" value. I believe it's supposed to be an arbitrary string, the meaning of which is device-specific. -Scott