Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: mvebu: Add support to get the ID and the revision of a SoC

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On Sunday 05 January 2014, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> That would be rather odd. These nodes are in the top level SoC dtsi
> file. When they are not used, they have status = "disabled" and are in
> the dtb blob with this state.
> 
> The only reason i can think of them not being present at all is if
> somebody adds an optimizer to dtc which removed disabled nodes. What
> does the device tree spec say about that? Are we relying on undefined
> dtc behavior?

There is no requirement to use the include files. If someone decides
to ship a default dtb file in their boot loader, it wouldn't be
a bug to leave the nodes out entirely.

	Arn
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