On 17/08/12 13:16, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote: > David Gibson wrote: >> The name still isn't quite right - it doesn't just strip disabled >> nodes but anything that isn't "okay", OF defines "failed" at least as >> another possibility for the status property. > I would say that staus=failed in a DTS is an error. It doesn't make any > sense. How can you know before you boot the board whether a device has > failed?
If you know in advance that device on that SOC is broken, then I guess "Fail"/"Failed" can be used in status property. One user of this flag in kernel device trees is ./arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8313erdb.dts _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
