Re: [RFC][PATCH V2 3/3] tegra: add pwm backlight device tree nodes

[Stephen Warren]

On 07/12/2012 11:32 PM, Alex Courbot wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 11:27 PM, Simon Glass wrote
...
>>  From my understanding mixing strings and numbers in a property is
>> frowned on though.
> 
> But doesn't it make sense in the current case? The power sequence is
> basically a program that is run by an interpreter. From this
> perspective, it makes more sense to me to have it as a binary field
> rather than a hierarchy of nodes and properties that will be harder to
> parse and will make error detection more complicated. I don't really see
> any practical benefit from turning the steps into sub-nodes, but then
> again I am not so familiar with the DT.

Mixing strings and integers in a property isn't "allowed" (by convention
of DT bindings reviewers - as you noticed, dtc will happily compile it);
there are practical issues with attempting to do so, such as causing the
integer values to be unaligned, and thus causing the current integer
parsing code to fail, etc.
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