From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] openfirmware: adds sysfs nodes for openfirmware devices
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:27:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0409878c894cf868678d8e5226e20c42@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110808986.5863.2.camel@gaston>
>>>>> Is whitespace (in any form) allowed in the compatible value?
>>
>> No. Only printable characters are allowed, that is, byte values
>> 0x21..0x7e and 0xa1..0xfe; each text string is terminated by a
>> 0x00; there can be several text strings concatenated in one
>> "compatible" property.
>>
>>>> Yes, whitespace is used at least in the toplevel compatible file,
>>>> like
>>>> 'Power Macintosh' in some Pismo models.
>>
>> So those OF implementations violate the OF specification.
>
> Well, we have an unmaintained spec on one side that can't even be
> ordered from IEEE anymore and actual imlementations that work today,
> what do you chose ? ;)
I choose the spec. If an implementation is not conformant to the spec,
it doesn't "work".
Not to say that Linux doesn't have to work around bugs in actual
implementations, of course. And there's a lot of those. Too bad ;-)
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-14 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-01 21:18 Jeffrey Mahoney
2005-03-02 23:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-03 18:19 ` Jeff Mahoney
2005-03-03 20:23 ` Olaf Hering
2005-03-03 21:17 ` Jeff Mahoney
2005-03-04 11:02 ` Olaf Hering
2005-03-04 16:35 ` Jeff Mahoney
2005-03-13 15:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2005-03-14 14:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-14 14:06 ` Olaf Hering
2005-03-14 14:27 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2005-03-14 15:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-14 15:19 ` Jeff Mahoney
2005-03-14 15:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
2005-03-14 21:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-03 22:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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