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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:34:49 +1100
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On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:21 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:18:49PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 14:53 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > > It occurred to me the other day.  Instead of using a new "unused"
> > > property for this, should we be using the OF standard "status"
> > > property.
> > 
> > Dunno... it's really not wired. Probably not even clocked.
> 
> status = "fail-notconnected"; ?

Bah, that's fugly.. jeff, don't hold the patches, we may sort that out
later.

Ben.