Re: [PATCH v7 14/14] Documentation: remove the constraint on the distances of node pairs

Will Deacon
2016-08-26T15:35:52Z

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 03:44:53PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
> Update documentation. This limit is unneccessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt
> index 21b3505..c0ea4a7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt
> @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ distance (memory latency) between all numa nodes.
>
> Note:
> 1. Each entry represents distance from first node to second node.
> - The distances are equal in either direction.

Hmm, so what happens now if firmware provides a description where both
distances (in either direction) are supplied, but are different?

Will