From: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>
To: Kukjin Kim <kgene@kernel.org>
Cc: 'Leela Krishna Amudala' <l.krishna@samsung.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, inki.dae@samsung.com,
jg1.han@samsung.com, thomas.abraham@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] ARM: EXYNOS: Add drm-device node to the dtsi file
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:51:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2322047.YHar8WY1rI@flatron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <135e01cd9b88$aea81140$0bf833c0$@org>
Hi,
On Wednesday 26 of September 2012 10:46:01 Kukjin Kim wrote:
> Please check below comments from Thomas Abraham and I agree with his
> opinion.
>
> There cannot be a node that represents a virtual device. Device tree
> should ideally describe the hardware but the above node does not
> represent a hardware device. The creation of the platform device
> instance for the above device should handled inside the kernel code.
I don't tend to agree with this opinion. Is there any further reasoning
behind it? Is it a current policy of the kernel that nodes should only
represent real devices?
Best regards,
Tomasz Figa
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: tomasz.figa@gmail.com (Tomasz Figa)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V2 3/3] ARM: EXYNOS: Add drm-device node to the dtsi file
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:51:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2322047.YHar8WY1rI@flatron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <135e01cd9b88$aea81140$0bf833c0$@org>
Hi,
On Wednesday 26 of September 2012 10:46:01 Kukjin Kim wrote:
> Please check below comments from Thomas Abraham and I agree with his
> opinion.
>
> There cannot be a node that represents a virtual device. Device tree
> should ideally describe the hardware but the above node does not
> represent a hardware device. The creation of the platform device
> instance for the above device should handled inside the kernel code.
I don't tend to agree with this opinion. Is there any further reasoning
behind it? Is it a current policy of the kernel that nodes should only
represent real devices?
Best regards,
Tomasz Figa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-28 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-21 12:59 [PATCH V2 0/3] Add device tree based discovery support for drm-fimd Leela Krishna Amudala
2012-09-21 12:59 ` Leela Krishna Amudala
2012-09-21 12:59 ` [PATCH V2 1/3] ARM: EXYNOS5: Add fimd node to the exynos5250 dtsi file Leela Krishna Amudala
2012-09-21 12:59 ` Leela Krishna Amudala
2012-09-21 12:59 ` [PATCH V2 2/3] ARM: EXYNOS: add device tree based discovery support for FIMD Leela Krishna Amudala
2012-09-21 12:59 ` Leela Krishna Amudala
2012-09-21 12:59 ` [PATCH V2 3/3] ARM: EXYNOS: Add drm-device node to the dtsi file Leela Krishna Amudala
2012-09-21 12:59 ` Leela Krishna Amudala
2012-09-26 1:46 ` Kukjin Kim
2012-09-26 1:46 ` Kukjin Kim
2012-09-28 6:51 ` Tomasz Figa [this message]
2012-09-28 6:51 ` Tomasz Figa
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