[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 01/17] fdt: Tidy up a few fdtdec problems

[Scott Wood]

On 12/05/2011 04:11 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
>> My point is that there are probably .dts files using "ok" instead of
>> "okay" or the kernel wouldn't support "ok". People will probably want to
>> use those with U-Boot without changing anything else. So, U-Boot should
>> interpret the FDT in the same way as the kernel.

The kernel has to deal with real Open Firmware systems, some of which
pass buggy trees.  U-Boot should not blindly imitate all of Linux's
workarounds.

> OK, how about:
> 		return 0 == strncmp(cell, "ok", 2);
> 
> (I do feel that if you do this sort of thing you end up with people
> using 'ok' even in new fdts, since they look at code like this and
> think it is fine)

Indeed.

-Scott