On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:01:06PM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote: > allowing values to boolean flags lets us setup > defaults on DTSI which can get disabled later > at board DTS if, for whatever reason, board can't > use that default. > > One such example is DM81xx EVM where we can't use > MUSB's multipoint feature even though SoC supports > it. Something at the board level prevents us from > using the feature. > > Instead of removing "multipoint;" from DTSI and > adding it to all board DTS just so we can remove > it from our quirky board seems like overkill when > we could just add: > > multipoint = <0>; > > to that quirky board's DTS. > > Note that the description here is but one example > and it's likely many others have faced something > similar. And others even came up with solutions, too: The right thing to do in this case is /delete-property/ multipoint; This works since cd296721a964 (dtc: import latest upstream dtc) which is in 3.7-rc1. See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/19170 for the related discussion. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
