Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: tegra: Use labels for overriding nodes in Tegra114 boards

From: Alexandre Courbot
Date: Wed May 20 2015 - 01:06:06 EST


On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Krzysztof KozÅowski
<k.kozlowski.k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2015-05-20 13:05 GMT+09:00 Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski
>> <k.kozlowski.k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Usage of labels instead of full paths reduces possible mistakes when
>>> overriding nodes.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski.k@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Indentation seems to be off by one tab in the added code (hence the
>> huge size of this patch ; most lines should not change), can you
>> check?
>
> It is correct. This change in indentation is an effect of moving nodes
> out of first bracket ("\ {"). That is the convention.
>
> It us up to you guys if this is worth the effort. For exynos we use
> label-convention and now I am converting old DTS to it. I think the
> label-convention is less error-prone when extending or overriding
> nodes. Also it removes duplicated addresses.

I don't really have a strong opinion on this - Stephen and Thierry
have worked with DT much more, let's see what they think...
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