On 12/05/2011 04:11 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com> wrote:
>> My point is that there are probably .dts files using "ok" instead of
>> "okay" or the kernel wouldn't support "ok". People will probably want to
>> use those with U-Boot without changing anything else. So, U-Boot should
>> interpret the FDT in the same way as the kernel.

The kernel has to deal with real Open Firmware systems, some of which
pass buggy trees.  U-Boot should not blindly imitate all of Linux's
workarounds.

> OK, how about:
>               return 0 == strncmp(cell, "ok", 2);
> 
> (I do feel that if you do this sort of thing you end up with people
> using 'ok' even in new fdts, since they look at code like this and
> think it is fine)

Indeed.

-Scott

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