On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 9:22 PM, <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am once again out of my depth with bison and flex.
Can't help on that one...
> The Devicetree Specification and ePAPR both tell me that I can
> put a label on a node, as in:
>
> [label:] node-name[@unit-address] {
> [properties definitions]
> [child nodes]
> }
Applying this to the root node would also imply that a unit-address is
also allowed which it is not. I'd contend that the root is special.
> and do not make any mention of the root node as being different
> that any other node in this respect.
>
> However, the dtc implementation does not allow a label on the
> root node. I tried modifying the dtc parser to allow a label
> on the root node. The result is patch 1/2 in this series.
Why would you want a label there? Because using "/" is too short or
the syntax for phandles using the path is too hard to remember (I
never can)?
Rob
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