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Message-id: <559CDFBA.40103@samsung.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:30:50 +0900
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>
Cc: devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: dts: Extend exynos5420-pinctrl nodes using labels
instead of paths
On 08.07.2015 14:46, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> A previously defined Device Tree node, can be extended either by defining
> a node using the same full path or by creating a label for the node and
> referencing to it.
>
> Using full paths is more error prone since if there was a typo error, a
> new node will be created instead of extending the node as it was desired.
> This will lead to run-time errors that could be hard to detect.
>
> A misstyped label on the other hand, will cause a dtc compile error which
s/misstyped/mistyped/
> makes it easier to detect the mistake since happens at build-time instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
>
> ---
>
> arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5420-pinctrl.dtsi | 1411 ++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 705 insertions(+), 706 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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