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Miller" , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org References: <20180830190523.31474-1-robh@kernel.org> <20180830190523.31474-4-robh@kernel.org> <35247ddc-303b-89d0-53b5-231c1a293721@gmail.com> From: Mark Cave-Ayland Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk; keydata= xsBNBFQJuzwBCADAYvxrwUh1p/PvUlNFwKosVtVHHplgWi5p29t58QlOUkceZG0DBYSNqk93 3JzBTbtd4JfFcSupo6MNNOrCzdCbCjZ64ik8ycaUOSzK2tKbeQLEXzXoaDL1Y7vuVO7nL9bG E5Ru3wkhCFc7SkoypIoAUqz8EtiB6T89/D9TDEyjdXUacc53R5gu8wEWiMg5MQQuGwzbQy9n PFI+mXC7AaEUqBVc2lBQVpAYXkN0EyqNNT12UfDLdxaxaFpUAE2pCa2LTyo5vn5hEW+i3VdN PkmjyPvL6DdY03fvC01PyY8zaw+UI94QqjlrDisHpUH40IUPpC/NB0LwzL2aQOMkzT2NABEB AAHNME1hcmsgQ2F2ZS1BeWxhbmQgPG1hcmsuY2F2ZS1heWxhbmRAaWxhbmRlLmNvLnVrPsLA eAQTAQIAIgUCVAm7PAIbAwYLCQgHAwIGFQgCCQoLBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQW8LFb64PMh9f NAgAuc3ObOEY8NbZko72AGrg2tWKdybcMVITxmcor4hb9155o/OWcA4IDbeATR6cfiDL/oxU mcmtXVgPqOwtW3NYAKr5g/FrZZ3uluQ2mtNYAyTFeALy8YF7N3yhs7LOcpbFP7tEbkSzoXNG z8iYMiYtKwttt40WaheWuRs0ZOLbs6yoczZBDhna3Nj0LA3GpeJKlaV03O4umjKJgACP1c/q T2Pkg+FCBHHFP454+waqojHp4OCBo6HyK+8I4wJRa9Z0EFqXIu8lTDYoggeX0Xd6bWeCFHK3 DhD0/Xi/kegSW33unsp8oVcM4kcFxTkpBgj39dB4KwAUznhTJR0zUHf63M7ATQRUCbs8AQgA y7kyevA4bpetM/EjtuqQX4U05MBhEz/2SFkX6IaGtTG2NNw5wbcAfhOIuNNBYbw6ExuaJ3um 2uLseHnudmvN4VSJ5Hfbd8rhqoMmmO71szgT/ZD9MEe2KHzBdmhmhxJdp+zQNivy215j6H27 14mbC2dia7ktwP1rxPIX1OOfQwPuqlkmYPuVwZP19S4EYnCELOrnJ0m56tZLn5Zj+1jZX9Co YbNLMa28qsktYJ4oU4jtn6V79H+/zpERZAHmH40IRXdR3hA+Ye7iC/ZpWzT2VSDlPbGY9Yja Sp7w2347L5G+LLbAfaVoejHlfy/msPeehUcuKjAdBLoEhSPYzzdvEQARAQABwsBfBBgBAgAJ BQJUCbs8AhsMAAoJEFvCxW+uDzIfabYIAJXmBepHJpvCPiMNEQJNJ2ZSzSjhic84LTMWMbJ+ opQgr5cb8SPQyyb508fc8b4uD8ejlF/cdbbBNktp3BXsHlO5BrmcABgxSP8HYYNsX0n9kERv NMToU0oiBuAaX7O/0K9+BW+3+PGMwiu5ml0cwDqljxfVN0dUBZnQ8kZpLsY+WDrIHmQWjtH+ Ir6VauZs5Gp25XLrL6bh/SL8aK0BX6y79m5nhfKI1/6qtzHAjtMAjqy8ChPvOqVVVqmGUzFg KPsrrIoklWcYHXPyMLj9afispPVR8e0tMKvxzFBWzrWX1mzljbBlnV2n8BIwVXWNbgwpHSsj imgcU9TTGC5qd9g= Message-ID: <9c873e57-84c8-75af-1d44-60e7cd41282d@ilande.co.uk> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 05:37:32 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <35247ddc-303b-89d0-53b5-231c1a293721@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 86.138.87.37 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] of: make default address and size cells sizes private X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:45:44 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on s16892447.onlinehome-server.info) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/09/18 02:55, Frank Rowand wrote: > On 08/30/18 12:05, Rob Herring wrote: >> Only some old OpenFirmware implementations rely on default sizes. Any >> FDT and modern implementation should have explicit properties. Make the >> OF_ROOT_NODE_*_CELLS_DEFAULT defines private so we don't get any outside >> users. >> >> This also gets us one step closer to removing the asm/prom.h dependency on >> Sparc. Just for the record: you say "any FDT and modern implementation should have explicit properties", however the default values of these properties when missing are clearly defined in the IEEE-1275 specification (Annex A): "#address-cells" Standard property name to define the package’s address format. ... In a package with a "decode-unit" method, a missing "#address-cells" property signifies that the number of address cells is two. "#size-cells" Standard property name to define the package’s address size format. ... A missing "#size-cells" property signifies the default value of one. I can't speak for FDT but it isn't completely unreasonable for a guest parsing a DT without these properties to assume these default values. ATB, Mark.