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From: "Jonathan Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jonathan Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, "Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"AKASHI Takahiro" <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>,
	"Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"James Morse" <james.morse@arm.com>,
	"Frank Rowand" <frank.rowand@sony.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: chosen: Document linux,initrd-{start,end}
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 06:41:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171216054139.d6hkbasex3p7h3qo@latitude> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171215210147.w3xqs3di2vbbvv5p@rob-hp-laptop>

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On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 03:01:47PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 04:33:02PM +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> > These properties have been in use for a very long time (at least since
> > 2005), but were never documented in chosen.txt.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> Applied.

Thanks.

> I'm inclined to say to document these in the DT spec, but I'm assuming 
> there was some reason why they weren't put into the spec (ePAPR at the 
> time) originally.

I don't know about the history of this, but I think if and when these
properties were specified in DTSpec, they should get a non-linux-specific
name, such as initrd-start/initrd-end, and a compatibility fallback to
linux,initrd-* (similar to stdout-path and phandle).


Jonathan Neuschäfer

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-16  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-09 15:33 Jonathan Neuschäfer
2017-12-15 21:01 ` Rob Herring
2017-12-16  5:41   ` Jonathan Neuschäfer [this message]

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