From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:33:09 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Jon Loeliger Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] DTC: Begin the path to sane literals and expressions. Message-ID: <20071023003309.GE31839@localhost.localdomain> References: <20d6133a9294d4f06a7e78ca627ec4f3@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:36:57AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: > So, like, the other day Segher Boessenkool mumbled: > > > Property names have been limited to start with > > > characters from the set [a-zA-Z,._#?]. That is, the > > > digits and the expression symbols have been removed. > > > > This cannot work; many property names start with a digit, > > for example. > > Are any of those property names in use in any > of our DTS files or b-w-o.txt? Not really, no. > In fact, with this lexical change, all of our > DTS files still produce byte-identical results. > > I really think this is one of those areas where > we may need to stray from the other guideline. > > Is there a compelling reason somewhere? Really? We may have deprecated te '64-bit' and '32-64-bridge' properties in cpu nodes for the flattened tree, but it already exists in a great number of Apple and IBM trees. It would be poor form for dtc to choke on these trees. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson