From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@arm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@linaro.org>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
devicetree-spec@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: DT case sensitivity
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 07:49:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4557653efa685ffc0533f7168a628491ad843e01.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180823121929.GS24439@gate.crashing.org>
On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 07:19 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> If one implementation does case insensitive, it will most likely just work,
> because people do not make insane names differing only in case on purpose.
Apple did :-)
ide, vs IDE, ata vs ATA, I've seen all sort of crap there, esp. on old
machines.
> Now people write other things that they only test against that implementation,
> and those things now only work with case-insensitive. And you do not know
> without testing if anything breaks. (But the laws of big numbers are against
> you here). Since there isn't really a drawback to doing case-insensitive
> always, that is a much safer way forward, much less work for everyone, even
> if technically the wrong thing to do :-)
>
>
> Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-23 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-23 0:47 DT case sensitivity Rob Herring
2018-08-23 1:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-23 1:26 ` Rob Herring
2018-08-23 1:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-23 9:02 ` Grant Likely
2018-08-23 11:43 ` Rob Herring
2018-08-23 11:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-23 11:56 ` Grant Likely
2018-08-23 12:08 ` Rob Herring
2018-08-23 12:48 ` Grant Likely
2018-08-23 12:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-08-24 15:14 ` Rob Herring
2018-08-24 16:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-08-23 12:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-08-23 21:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2018-08-24 5:39 ` Michael Ellerman
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