From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [dtc] Allow references to labels
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:36:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <702B18C7-8F8F-4920-8014-236BA5BBF190@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070207032907.GE23870@localhost.localdomain>
On Feb 6, 2007, at 9:29 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> dtc allows nodes to have labels, which at present are just re-emitted
> as symbols at the appropriate places when using asm-mode output. It
> also allows "references" where the notation &/path/to/node in a cell
> list will be replaced with the phandle of the referenced node.
>
> This patch extends the reference syntax to allow references to labels
> instead of just full device paths. This allows nodes deep within the
> tree to be referenced with a shorter more convenient name. References
> to labels are distinguished from reference to paths by the fact that
> paths must start with a /, but labels can never start with a /.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Mind adding an example of this to the testsuite?
- k
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-07 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-07 3:29 [dtc] Allow references to labels David Gibson
2007-02-07 4:36 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2007-02-08 23:28 ` Jon Loeliger
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