[PATCH 0/7] ARM: dts: Refactor Exynos5 boards for phandle notation

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sun Apr 12 13:07:02 PDT 2015


On Sunday 12 April 2015 21:24:47 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 
> The phandle notation reduces possible mistakes when overriding nodes
> by child board files and reduces duplication of addresses.
> 
> The patchset refactors Exynos5 boards to use the phandle way.
> 
> Tested by comparison of decompiled DTB for each commit.

The patches look fine, but the description is wrong as you are not
using 'phandles' here, you are using 'labels'.

A phandle is a reference to another device node inside of a property,
and while that is normally done using labels like

	interrupt-parent = <&gic>;

you can just as well use the full path in a phandle.

	Arnd



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