On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 13:31 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > I've seen other use cases, e.g. the extension of the du node's > "clocks" and > "clock-names" properties from arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7795.dtsi > to > arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7795-salvator-x.dts. > > To avoid the proliferation of "-append" versions of existing > properties, what > about handling this in dtc, by adding support for an > "/append-property/" > keyword?
That would not address use case #2 that I mentioned, where the dtb would have a "bootargs-append" property but no "bootargs" property.
