From: Scott Wood <scottwood-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
To: John Schmoller <jschmoller-AQeFf1F/bRxBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Device Tree "Status" Property Question
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:37:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B42517E.6000609@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1262192287.3811.4.camel@johns>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-04 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-30 16:58 Device Tree "Status" Property Question John Schmoller
2010-01-04 14:50 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2010-01-04 20:37 ` Scott Wood [this message]
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