Re: "memory" binding issues

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On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:56:39AM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> I'm afraid that I must disagree. For consistency I'd rather go with what 
> Ben said. Please see ePAPR chapter 2.2.1.1, which clearly defines how 
> nodes should be named.

2.2.1.1 is there to point out that unit address _has_ to reflect reg.

2.2.3 says that unit addresses can be omitted.

> Having unit-address whenever the node has a reg property has the nice 
> property of eliminating the need to rename any nodes when adding new one. 
> (Consider the case that you have one subnode somewhere and you omit the 
> unit-address and then you find out that you have to add another subnode 
> with the same name, but another reg value.)

This motivation doesn't bother me at all -- it should be relatively rare.


-Olof
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