Overlay sugar syntax (was: Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] drm: rcar-du: Fix legacy DT to create LVDS encoder nodes)

[Frank Rowand]

On 03/06/18 18:30, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 01:40:20PM -0800, Frank Rowand wrote:
>> On 03/06/18 11:51, Frank Rowand wrote:
>>> On 03/06/18 04:30, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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>>> And the patched dtc works for a dts file that I was trying to convert
>>> to sugar dts syntax
>>
>> < snip >
>>
>> I noticed that a space in "&{/}" is an error.  I wanted to check whether
>> that was deliberate, or that the patch wasn't fully complete yet.
> 
> That's essentially deliberate - it's not really related to this patch
> at all.  The patch just re-uses the existing syntax for a "path
> reference".  The whole thing is treated as a single token, hence, no
> spaces.
> 
> It might be possible to change that, but it could introduce some
> complications when the path reference syntax is used in other places.
> So I'm disinclined to change it, unless there's a very strong reason
> to.
> 

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No, please do not change.  I just wanted to make sure I understood the
intended syntax.

BTW, thanks for all the time you've been putting into this recent stuff.