[PATCH] fdt/sunxi: Remove OF_STDOUT_PATH
Andre Przywara
andre.przywara at arm.com
Thu Feb 18 17:02:13 CET 2021
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:45:29 -0700
Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
Hi Simon,
> 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 :-)
Thanks :blush:
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Thanks, shall I take this patch through the sunxi tree (I have a PR
ready anyway), or do you want to take it?
Cheers,
Andre
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