> Right. See, there are people like me that don't know what the > default values > are/should be. Having them explicitly listed, even if it's > redundant, serves > as a good learning aid.
_Only_ if it's redundant. Not if it has a meaning different from having the property not there at all. > Now, realistically I do know what the default is in this case. But > I only > learned that recently. With hopefully more people starting to port > things > over to arch/powerpc it might be a good idea to document them at > least. Definitely, we need more good examples, and maybe some public stonings or something like that. > Otherwise, I fear we'd wind up repeating ourselves over and over. > > Could we get a 'thou shalt not rely on defaults' added to > booting-without-of.txt? Or maybe something less draconian ;). Such a statement is too vague to be meaningful. It would be a good idea in separate cases; but _do_ describe it more carefully than just talking about "defaults", and _do_ put a comment at any such entry that this is different from how Open Firmware defines this, so that people looking at the Linux code won't get hopelessly confused. Segher _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
