linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: tegra: Use labels for overriding nodes in Tegra114 boards

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Date:	Wed, 20 May 2015 14:05:38 +0900
From:	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
To:	Krzysztof Kozłowski <k.kozlowski.k@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: tegra: Use labels for overriding
 nodes in Tegra114 boards

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Krzysztof Kozłowski
<k.kozlowski.k@...il.com> wrote:
> 2015-05-20 13:05 GMT+09:00 Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>:
>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski
>> <k.kozlowski.k@...il.com> wrote:
>>> Usage of labels instead of full paths reduces possible mistakes when
>>> overriding nodes.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski.k@...il.com>
>>
>> Indentation seems to be off by one tab in the added code (hence the
>> huge size of this patch ; most lines should not change), can you
>> check?
>
> It is correct. This change in indentation is an effect of moving nodes
> out of first bracket ("\ {"). That is the convention.
>
> It us up to you guys if this is worth the effort. For exynos we use
> label-convention and now I am converting old DTS to it. I think the
> label-convention is less error-prone when extending or overriding
> nodes. Also it removes duplicated addresses.

I don't really have a strong opinion on this - Stephen and Thierry
have worked with DT much more, let's see what they think...
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