From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Stephen Winiecki <stevewin@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH 2/15] Automatically lmb_reserve() initrd
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:00:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173808855.24454.80.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF526C2D02.381593EB-ON8725729D.005FC841-8525729D.0060FE86@us.ibm.com>
> I understand - I guess I am just thinking of the case where someone didn't
> define the property because they were not aware of it - esp in this case
> where the existence of the property name is all that is required for the
> value to be filled in properly by the init code. Instead of just setting
> the start/end to 0 - maybe include a message something like (even if
> debug) "No initird-start/end property found - setting to 0" - just a minor
> example. The larger point also being that defining dts files and
> properties may be a new thing for many people with the new support - might
> be helpful to surface missing properties when appropriate (I'm not
> condoning mass amounts of messages for everything).
I think the proper thing to do instead is improve the documentation :-)
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-13 18:00 UTC|newest]
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2007-03-13 17:43 Fw: [PATCH 2/15] Automatically lmb_reserve() initrd Stephen Winiecki
2007-03-13 18:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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2007-03-12 20:21 Stephen Winiecki
2007-03-12 21:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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