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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index d42d98107d49..c169299716b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -626,6 +626,14 @@ So the node content can be summarized as a start token, a full path, a list of properties, a list of child nodes, and an end token. Every child node is a full node structure itself as defined above. +NOTE: The above definition requires that all property definitions for +a particular node MUST precede any subnode definitions for that node. +Although the structure would not be ambiguous if properties and +subnodes were intermingled, the kernel parser requires that the +properties come first (up until at least 2.6.22). Any tools +manipulating a flattened tree must take care to preserve this +constraint. + 4) Device tree "strings" block In order to save space, property names, which are generally redundant, |