[PATCH v3 3/3] of: support passing console options with stdout-path

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Thu Feb 26 06:44:00 PST 2015


> Sorry if I was unclear. My question was not _whether_ to fix this
> for earlycon, but rather _how_.
> 
> IOW, is the ':' character accepted as a path terminator for
> 1. all nodes, so fix this in fdt_path_offset();
> 2. only chosen nodes;
> 3. unique to stdout-path, so fix this in early_init_dt_scan_chosen_serial()?

Ah, sorry.

The ':' character is accepted as a path terminator for stdout-path and
stdin-path within chosen node. It does not appear to be mentioned
anywhere else in the standard.

	 Andrew



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