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

- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \<benh@kernel.crashing.org\>
- Date: 2008-08-07 22:51:28 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2008/08/9444319
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2008/08/9444193/t.md

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On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:46 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Grant Likely [ref] wrote:
> > From: Grant Likely <redacted>
> >
> > of_lookup_stdout() is useful for figuring out what device to use as output
> > for early boot progress messages.  It returns the node pointed to by the
> > linux,stdout-path property in the chosen node.
> 
> I thought linux,stdout-path is deprecated are we're supposed to be
> using the aliases node instead?

You are mixing two completely different things afaik.

Ben.
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