On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:18:50 -0600 Jon Loeliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Folks, > > When the new DTS /dts-v1/ support is released Real Soon Now, > it will support C-like literal constants. Hex values will be > prefixed with 0x, binary with 0b, and bare numbers will be > decimal unless they start with a leading 0. > > One outstanding question on which I'd like some feedback > is the issue of bytestring value representation. > > Currently they look like this: > > stuff = [ 0b 31 22 de ea ad be ef ]; > > One opinion is to have them continue to look like that > and be in hex only. > > Another opinion is to allow the new, consistent C-style > literals and expressions so that one could have: > > new_stuff = [ 0x31 49 '1' 23 17 ]; > > Opinions? My off-the-cuff opinion is to leave them as they are today. They seem to mostly be used for MAC addresses, and you don't really see a whole lot of those with the 0x prefix before every number. At the same time, inconsistency sucks. josh _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
