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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 17/35] pl011: Initialize serial from
	ACPI SPCR table
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 11:42:40 +0000
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On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 21:57 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:

> I believe that most of the SPCR parsing should be generic, so maybe you 
> could extend the DEVICE interface to handle the ACPI case.

Extending DT_DEVICE would be confusing IMHO. The answer is probably a
similar but parallel ACPI_DEVICE mechanism, perhaps sharing some
underlying infrastructure with DT_DEVICE.

Ian.