> On Apr 11, 2018, at 12:46 AM, David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:42:14AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >> Curious if there is a reason that the alias node name char set is limited to [a-z][0-9] and ‘-‘. >> >> I’m guessing some historic reason, so curious as why that limited >> set. [I really want an emoji in my alias name ;)] > > I'm pretty sure that limitation goes all the way back to IEEE1275, > though I'm not sure of the rationale. Even if the set was widened you > couldn't really have an emoji since an alias - like all node names - > is a bag-o'-bytes, not a Unicode string. Any reason not to update the spec and allow alias names to be treated the same as any property name? I was joking about the emoji bit. - k-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree-spec" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
