Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] openfirmware: adds sysfs nodes for openfirmware devices | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:52:56 +1100 |
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> Reviewing the 'compatible' values in my device-tree, I definately agree. > I can hack the pmac_zilog driver to test this out further - I've just > been using my airport card. > > Are there any other "invalid" characters for the compatible property? > CRLF would work, but these values (as a group) need to be put into > modules.ofmap as well as passed via environment variables for hotplug. > As such, CRLF isn't really easiest choice to work with.
I don't think any value is "invalid". Not sure what is best to use ... maybe '#' ? never seen it in there so far ... but who knows ...
> Is whitespace (in any form) allowed in the compatible value?
Yes. For example: "Power Macintosh" is a typical compatible value in the root of the devive tree.
Maybe "tab" ?
Ben.
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