Re: dec behavior question

On Oct 25, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:

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Subject: Re: dec behavior question

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:01:49AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:

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If I have something like:

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spi.dtsi:

&spi0 {
       #address-cells = <1>;
       #size-cells = <0>;
       compatible = "fsl,mpc8536-espi";
       reg = <0x7000 0x1000>;
       interrupts = <59 0x2 0 0>;
};
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foo.dts:

spi0: spi@f00bar {
	compatible = "FOOBAR";
};

/include/ "spi.dtsi"

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What do you expect the resulting dtb to look like w/regards to the
compatible node?

It's always last tree wins.  So it will end up with compatible = "FOOBAR".

If last wins, then it would be the included file
(compatible = "fsl,mpc8536-espi"), no?

Stuart

I don't believe so because the include of spi.dtsi doesn't actually instantiate a node.  This is a little different than use of 'include' for merging of nodes.

- k