Re: "memory" binding issues

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 15:48 -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > A node that has a "reg" property should have the corresponding unit
> > address.
> 
> No, absolutely _NOT_ a requirement. Unit address is only required if
> needed to disambiguate two properties with the same name.
> 
> If there are no ambiguities, then leaving off the unit address is much
> preferred.

I disagree :-)

Also this would be only true of our find_node_by_path was capable of
handling it, which it isn't. Thus you end up with generic code looking
for /memory and finding nothing ... 

Cheers,
Ben.


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