[PATCH] fdt/sunxi: Remove OF_STDOUT_PATH

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Feb 18 05:45:29 CET 2021


On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 at 05:35, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
>
> OF_STDOUT_PATH was meant to hold the devicetree path to the serial
> console, to be put into the linux,stdout-path property of the chosen node.
>
> The only user of that was sunxi, and it was actually wrong for years
> there: the paths hardcoded in sunxi_common.h were not matching the DTs,
> evident by the leading 0's in nodenames, which have been removed years
> ago.
>
> On top of that, "linux,stdout-path" is now deprecated for a while (Linux
> commit 2a9d832cc9aae from November 2014), and also all modern DTs
> (including those included in U-Boot) carry a "stdout-path" property
> already.
>
> So remove the stanza from sunxi_common.h, and, since this was the last
> user, also remove the associated bits from the rest of U-Boot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> ---
>  README                         |  1 -
>  common/fdt_support.c           |  9 +--------
>  include/configs/sunxi-common.h | 18 ------------------
>  scripts/config_whitelist.txt   |  1 -
>  4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 28 deletions(-)
>

You should teach a class in how to write commit messages :-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>


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