From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] of: add of_lookup_stdout() utility function Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:38:25 -0500 Message-ID: <489B4F31.7050201@freescale.com> References: <489b4af2.199.1a42.425913876@bga.com> <489B4B89.1010507@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <489B4B89.1010507-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org To: Timur Tabi Cc: devicetree-discuss-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, miltonm-ogEGBHC/i9Y@public.gmane.org, linuxppc-dev-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org 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