# Re: \[RFC/PATCH 2/3\] of: add of\_lookup\_stdout() utility function

- From: Scott Wood \<hidden\>
- Date: 2008-08-07 19:38:25 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2008/08/8049090
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-devicetree/2008/08/8049090/t.md

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Timur Tabi wrote:
> Milton Miller wrote:
>
>> Why should what the hvc driver support have any effect on
>> what the binding should be?
>
> Because my hypervisor console driver uses the hypervisor console/tty subsystem.
>  If the subsystem assumes one stdout/stdin device, then I must abide by that.

So fix the subsystem, don't use the subsystem, or live with the fact that you support a subset of what the device tree can express.  Don't cripple the device tree because of that.

-Scott
```