On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:33 PM, Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote: > Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> writes: > >> 'linux,stdout-path' has been deprecated for some time in favor of >> 'stdout-path'. Now dtc will warn on occurrences of 'linux,stdout-path'. >> Search and replace all the of occurrences with 'stdout-path'. > > This patch looks OK. > > But please remember that not all device trees are generated with dtc, we > still have machines in the wild that have firmware which use > "linux,stdout-path" and may never be updated.
Absolutely. The core code still supports both. The only scenario I could come up with is someone has an old bootloader that only understands linux,stdout-path and modifies it and they update the dtb. We may end up with both properties with stdout-path taking preference. Rob
