Re: [PATCH] MIPS: implement a "bootargs-append" DT property

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Hi Daniel,

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich
<daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 13:31 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> I've seen other use cases, e.g. the extension of the du node's
>> "clocks" and
>> "clock-names" properties from arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7795.dtsi
>> to
>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7795-salvator-x.dts.
>>
>> To avoid the proliferation of "-append" versions of existing
>> properties, what
>> about handling this in dtc, by adding support for an
>> "/append-property/"
>> keyword?
>
> That would not address use case #2 that I mentioned, where the dtb would
> have a "bootargs-append" property but no "bootargs" property.

For use case #2, you were talking about kernel configuration?
Isn't that something completely different?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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