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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH] powerpc: deleteboot-cpu
	and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:00:04 -0600
To: "Yoder Stuart-B08248" <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
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On Feb 16, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:benh@kernel.crashing.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:09 PM
>> To: David Gibson
>> Cc: Yoder Stuart-B08248; Segher Boessenkool; linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
>> Subject: Re: purpose of /chosen node (was RE: [PATCH]
>> powerpc: deleteboot-cpu and chosen nodes from all DTSfiles)
>>
>>
>>> You're right.  Question is, can we change it now.  It's out there in
>>> the documentation, on the other hand, I don't think the kernel
>>> actually uses it anywhere yet.  BenH, opinion?
>>
>> We can change the documentation and add a little note about  
>> "obsoleted
>> practice". I don't think the kernel uses it.
>>
>
> I'll submit a patch to booting-without-of.txt for this.

Need to also update dtc not to "warn" about it.

- k