From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: In booting-without-of.txt, clarify that properties must precede subnodes
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:24:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ce7fd9ddd0561e63c0f0bbfcd1e0139@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070628055626.GB10769@localhost.localdomain>
> A strict reading of the flattened device tree format defined in
> booting-without-of.txt does in fact require that all the tags defining
> properties for a node go before any definitions of subnodes, however
> it's not particularly emphasised. Although allowing intermingled
> properties and subnodes would not be ambiguous in meaning, the kernel
> parser does currently require that properties precede subnodes.
> Furthermore, keeping this constraint makes life easier for various
> device tree scanning tools.
>
> Therefore, re-emphasise in booting-without-of.txt that this is a
> strict requirement of the flattened device tree format.
Do you want to require this for device tree source files,
too? I think that's how the tools work right now but that's
not made explicit anywhere afaik.
Segher
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2007-06-28 5:56 In booting-without-of.txt, clarify that properties must precede subnodes David Gibson
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