Re: [PATCH 8/9 V3] Add documentation for the new DTS language.

[Scott Wood <scottwood-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>]

Grant Likely wrote:
> Okay.  So the redefinition of nodes feature got implemented far faster
> than I expected it would.  Woohoo!  :-)
> 
> That leaves the last bit that I really care about; deleting nodes and
> properties.  I can probably find the time to implement the C code for
> this, but have no idea how to do the grammer, and I don't think we've
> got a consensus on syntax.
> 
> Given the following tree...
> 
> / {
>         child-label: child {
>                 prop = <0xbad>;
>                 grandchild-label: grandchild {
>                 };
>         };
> };
> 
> ...here are the use cases that I see as important (plus some suggested
> syntax.  I'm not happy with it though, and I'm open to better ideas).
> 
> 1) Deleting a property from a node:
> &child-label {
>         /* syntax to delete "prop" property */
>         delete-prop("prop");
>         ^prop;  /* this isn't very good, hard to differentiate from
> node deletion */
>         __delete_property = "prop";
> };
> 
> 2) Delete a child node:
> &child-label {
>         /* syntax to delete "grandchild" node */
>         delete-node("grandchild");
>         ^grandchild;
>         __delete_node = "grandchild";
>         grandchild = ^{};
> };
> 
> 3) Delete a labelled node from the top level:
> delete-node(&grandchild-label);

I vote for the function-like option -- delete-prop("prop"), etc.

-Scott