hex number case in dts files.

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Feb 9 19:19:21 EST 2012


On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:20:33PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 12:04 PM, David Brown wrote:
> > I've noticed an inconsistency in the case of letters in hex constants
> > in various dts files.  The ones that are actually numbers probably
> > don't really matter, the but the node names are case sensitive
> > strings, and in some sense do matter.
> > 
> > I ask because some people I've spoken with internally seem to have
> > strong opinions about what case hex constants should be, and it'd be
> > nice to be able to have some guideline about this.  Historically, I've
> > always seen DT hex values in lowercase.
> > 
> 
> Lower case should be used for dts files.

Yes, the node names should always have the hex done in lower case.  I
have plans to put more checks in for how reg is encoded into node
names, but just need to get time.

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