Re: gEDA-user: Power nets in hierarchy

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org>]

Hi Bill,

>I'd like to have a device type like 'power' for power bus symbols like 
>vdd and vss.  Rather than trying to overwrite the name of the net 
[snip]

>This is different functionality that that given with the 
>net=<netname>:<pinlabel> attribute.  That attribute assigns pins on 
>footprints to signals, even when they are not available on the symbol. 
> Power devices would globally override nets after flattening, but would 
>have no effect until then.
>
>What do you think?

	I have no problem with this.  Would it be sufficient to set
the device= attribute to "power" or something appropriate?  Setting this
attribute on the power bus symbols will break gnetlist a little (till
I fix it).  

								-Ales