From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Gibson Subject: Re: /aliases node and valid property names Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:27:05 +1100 Message-ID: <20170320052705.GB29814@umbus.fritz.box> References: <20170318011906.GA19897@bill-the-cat> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj" Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gibson.dropbear.id.au; s=201602; t=1489988843; bh=lOsfQDU4KYFpnE5V287zIi+iEZ1NIIejGxDLS+a1gKU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=bqKgdbNFsDsYv5eiyQ7cyCRQ2K/AW2qjloOoGdpxCgntuFBK97sGm6UD434R4O1xk 3+Jddhfz06DwhXW8aWUEJZOOtmaLt0hw34nfYNfCNbneG3ikHhyC9zO5qtnm5hXSyF adz/kPwjOU5PEwuOmlm4Tzx0ytd7mGH5Gjg3E37A= Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170318011906.GA19897@bill-the-cat> Sender: devicetree-spec-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: To: Tom Rini Cc: devicetree-spec-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org --kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:19:06PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote: > Hey all, >=20 > I found out about https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/613 and > in digging a little harder, this is not the first case where 'ethernet' > has been added rather than 'ethernet0'. Looking at the spec, it's > implied (by all the examples) that property names end in a number but > it's certainly allowable by the way things are worded to not. Is it > worth adding any further words here, another example, or just leaving > everything alone? Thanks! Numbers shouldn't be required. Certainly on old OF-era machines, aliases called simply 'net' or 'disk' were both common and useful. --=20 David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson --kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYz2gmAAoJEGw4ysog2bOSsacP/iib/ZignsbUHzkYlXd913f7 LtiFcJDuhd5+9j5VimQIgs8J5xi3ryP6pIFjaYQx5yfkQXXiTpgoxGczC0+bXdMD oKNqR+l28yBXSvIEBY81lgExy3PyRWoBZIKLlfOPnCCmDlcmqyQEY4gBkgBnh2aV gnLXzQmPIsowR3fQoMqbBzRvR/pO3wsCLRC+KX9yBcJNWOEv5gCVUihG5zHUxRPP Cj+M0oUAGFpC7C3A9mpC+4Fk0MP3LKJSW7caHIwXghalQf0hyINjAUKSTVUFJG0T 8ryvsgQ7+JjpbVZLL2Kh7GT+TC/lBynxlpsSbqHrq+9PiZ9TZXG1C9US1H25mmaj cSdqR8QZaO+3opQoaQKzxXwoi7ThcMxl/EsCcAgUa5lMIPv4oE+gbyEiYTe2An5+ Xlof8+1xprlHoapNXl1qG+VwEhrKZMcovZUcwlZUpprccWkdtaq7+5EMOQGQifUr rRwpd2jLifHY92zOeuGre3VW6so/AHsp5EYDQf/6CI7Lq/K+ffDqEfg3U/c4cbMv 26rfdGULn9hFBx2nxKOEFzyZGW+j7SlIJPbYkAXeE+V/qpS8cZQnVWeNlb/T2lXj VrMBQMI11xBthXLUveBj+JrfPdp3jCmmC5fUtsClYpKkhcO7LrwnhypcO+DHb8R/ as3Tiq1+K1FB2hw42GNE =dDjP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj--