On 08/29/2011 02:42 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Chunhe Lan,
> 
> In message <1314602152-9114-1-git-send-email-chunhe....@freescale.com> you 
> wrote:
>> In the p1023rds, accessing exclusively nor flash or nand flash device by
>> BR0/OR0.
> ...
>> When booting from nor flash, the status of nor node is null that means it
>> is enabled and the status of nand node is disabled in the default dts file,
>> so do not do anything.
> 
> It would be more intuitive to the reader, when the enabled node would
> use an explicit
> 
>       status = "enabled";
> 
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_NAND_U_BOOT
>> +    do_fixup_by_path_string(fdt, "nor_flash", "status", "disabled");
>> +    do_fixup_by_path_string(fdt, "nand_flash", "status", "okay");
>> +#endif
> 
> What does ""okay" mean?  This is not documented anywhere.

It is documented in ePAPR and IEEE 1275.

> Is this supposed to mean "enabled"?

Yes, or more specifically, "The device is believed to be operational."

It's generally equivalent to having no status property at all.

> Then please write "enabled" 

Please don't redefine well-established standards.

-Scott

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