Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 06:41:39 +0100
From: Jonathan =?utf-8?Q?Neusch=C3=A4fer?= <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan =?utf-8?Q?Neusch=C3=A4fer?= <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>,
        devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
        Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: chosen: Document linux,initrd-{start,end}
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On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 03:01:47PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 04:33:02PM +0100, Jonathan Neusch=C3=A4fer wrote:
> > These properties have been in use for a very long time (at least since
> > 2005), but were never documented in chosen.txt.
> >=20
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neusch=C3=A4fer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>=20
> Applied.

Thanks.

> I'm inclined to say to document these in the DT spec, but I'm assuming=20
> there was some reason why they weren't put into the spec (ePAPR at the=20
> time) originally.

I don't know about the history of this, but I think if and when these
properties were specified in DTSpec, they should get a non-linux-specific
name, such as initrd-start/initrd-end, and a compatibility fallback to
linux,initrd-* (similar to stdout-path and phandle).


Jonathan Neusch=C3=A4fer

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