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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] DTC: Begin the path to sane literals and expressions.
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:36:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IjwWf-0000dJ-45@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:30:45 +0200." <20d6133a9294d4f06a7e78ca627ec4f3@kernel.crashing.org>

So, like, the other day Segher Boessenkool mumbled:
> > Property names have been limited to start with
> > characters from the set [a-zA-Z,._#?].  That is, the
> > digits and the expression symbols have been removed.
> 
> This cannot work; many property names start with a digit,
> for example.

Are any of those property names in use in any
of our DTS files or b-w-o.txt?  Not really, no.
In fact, with this lexical change, all of our
DTS files still produce byte-identical results.

I really think this is one of those areas where
we may need to stray from the other guideline.

Is there a compelling reason somewhere?  Really?

jdl

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-22 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-19 17:43 [PATCH 4/4] DTC: Begin the path to sane literals and expressions Jon Loeliger
2007-10-20  8:47 ` David Gibson
2007-10-21  5:32   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-10-22  0:37     ` David Gibson
2007-10-25 18:24   ` Jon Loeliger
2007-10-26  1:28     ` David Gibson
2007-10-26 13:07       ` Jon Loeliger
2007-10-26 14:03         ` David Gibson
2007-10-21  5:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-10-22  0:51   ` David Gibson
2007-10-22 12:36   ` Jon Loeliger [this message]
2007-10-23  0:33     ` David Gibson
2007-10-23  0:57       ` Segher Boessenkool

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