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From: plagnioj@jcrosoft.com (Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:41:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] OF: Add helper for matching against linux,stdout-path
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On 18:03 Wed 21 Nov     , Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
> <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> wrote:
> > From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
> >
> > devicetrees may have a linux,stdout-path or stdout-path property
> > in the chosen node describing the console device. This adds a helper
> > function to match a device against this property and retrieve the options
> > so a driver can call add_preferred_console for a matching device.
> 
> NIce. Looks like the right behaviour, but is a little inefficient.
> Since the stdout property doesn't change this code could be called
> once right after the tree is unflattened and then cache the pointer to
> the node anarguments. Can you add the code to of_alias_scan()?
do we assume that we can have only one stdout-path?

I think we could have more serial, framebuffer console

Best Regards,
J.