Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:49:03 +0100 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Device tree updates for v3.12 |
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:06:39PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: >> > If I recall correctly, somebody said that things like ethernet MAC >> > addresses etc sometimes come from DT. Is my memory going, or is that >> > true but very rare? >> >> It is true and fairly common. You can also have serial numbers in the >> DT, but that is more rare. The bootloader will also add the kernel >> command line, initrd start and end addresses. > > Stuff which is common across a large number of devices is rather less > useful to merge in. Is there some fixed way that things like serial > numbers and MAC addresses are tagged as such in the device tree?
Unfortunately not. There is no indication about which are the dynamic properties.
g.
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