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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add legacy devices to mpc8641_hpcn.dts
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On Sunday 08 July 2007, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>>> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=
=A0=A0=A0=A08042@60 {
> >>>> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0device_type =3D "8042";
> >
> >> Drop the device_type. =A0A number as a name isn't
> >> all that great, either.
> >
> > =A0 Yet it's kinda accepted years ago, see:
> >
> > http://playground.sun.com/1275/proposals/Closed/Accepted/381-it.txt
>=20
> That's not a published recommendation or anything like that.
>=20

But still, it's what got used in what appears to be all ISA based machines
with such a keyboard controller, both PowerPC and i386 ones.

Are you suggesting that we should declare all existing machines wrong and do
our own thing instead?

	Arnd <><