currently perusing the kernel code for device tree processing and stumbled across this in drivers/of/base.c: void of_alias_scan(void * (*dt_alloc)(u64 size, u64 align)) { struct property *pp; of_aliases = of_find_node_by_path("/aliases"); of_chosen = of_find_node_by_path("/chosen"); if (of_chosen == NULL) of_chosen = of_find_node_by_path("/chosen@0"); ????? if (of_chosen) { ... snip ... that pretty clearly says that "/chosen@0" is an equivalent node name for "/chosen", correct? but why was that equivalence first defined? if i scan the entire kernel source tree, this is all i get: $ grep -r "/chosen@0" * arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c: chosen = of_finddevice("/chosen@0"); drivers/of/base.c: of_chosen = of_find_node_by_path("/chosen@0"); drivers/of/fdt.c: offset = fdt_path_offset(fdt, "/chosen@0"); $ so there are apparently three files that *check* for that alternate name, but not a single .dts or .dtsi that actually uses it. is there any value to that alternate name? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================