Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] 4xx: Add aliases node to 4xx dts files

So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled:

On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:10:02PM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

quoted

Hopefully some version that stores path strings in the properties
in /aliases, and not phandles.

Yes.

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Or does that current version of DTC
do that correctly already, and just has an inconvenient source
syntax?

Feh.  If there is an "inconvenient source syntax", or any other
annoying irregularity, please, by all means, suggest improvements
and offer patches!

I don't think anyone's actually gone and generated phandles in
/aliases, although it was suggested early on.  The syntax is
	foo = < &bar >;
to generate a phandle and
	foo = &bar;
to generate a path.

I was a bit worried about confusion between these forms, but at least
Kumar and myself came up with this syntax independently, which
suggests it's not too surprising to most people, and no-one had any
other suggestions.

To be a bit more complete, Kumar and I discussed this as well.

jdl