Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2018 07:39:06 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powerpc: dts: replace 'linux,stdout-path' with 'stdout-path' |
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:33 PM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote: > Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> writes: > >> 'linux,stdout-path' has been deprecated for some time in favor of >> 'stdout-path'. Now dtc will warn on occurrences of 'linux,stdout-path'. >> Search and replace all the of occurrences with 'stdout-path'. > > This patch looks OK. > > But please remember that not all device trees are generated with dtc, we > still have machines in the wild that have firmware which use > "linux,stdout-path" and may never be updated.
Absolutely. The core code still supports both.
The only scenario I could come up with is someone has an old bootloader that only understands linux,stdout-path and modifies it and they update the dtb. We may end up with both properties with stdout-path taking preference.
Rob
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