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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org,
	Yoder Stuart <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>,
	miltonm@bga.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] of: add of_lookup_stdout() utility function
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:38:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489B4F31.7050201@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489B4B89.1010507@freescale.com>

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Milton Miller wrote:
> 
>> Why should what the hvc driver support have any effect on
>> what the binding should be?
> 
> Because my hypervisor console driver uses the hypervisor console/tty subsystem.
>  If the subsystem assumes one stdout/stdin device, then I must abide by that.

So fix the subsystem, don't use the subsystem, or live with the fact 
that you support a subset of what the device tree can express.  Don't 
cripple the device tree because of that.

-Scott

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From: Scott Wood <scottwood-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
To: Timur Tabi <timur-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: devicetree-discuss-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org,
	miltonm-ogEGBHC/i9Y@public.gmane.org,
	linuxppc-dev-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] of: add of_lookup_stdout() utility function
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:38:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489B4F31.7050201@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489B4B89.1010507-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Milton Miller wrote:
> 
>> Why should what the hvc driver support have any effect on
>> what the binding should be?
> 
> Because my hypervisor console driver uses the hypervisor console/tty subsystem.
>  If the subsystem assumes one stdout/stdin device, then I must abide by that.

So fix the subsystem, don't use the subsystem, or live with the fact 
that you support a subset of what the device tree can express.  Don't 
cripple the device tree because of that.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-07 19:20 [RFC/PATCH 2/3] of: add of_lookup_stdout() utility function Milton Miller
2008-08-07 19:22 ` Timur Tabi
2008-08-07 19:38   ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-08-07 19:38     ` Scott Wood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-06  6:02 [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Attempt at making 32bit BAT assignment more intelligent Grant Likely
2008-08-06  6:02 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/3] of: add of_lookup_stdout() utility function Grant Likely
2008-08-06  6:14   ` Michael Ellerman
2008-08-06  6:34     ` Grant Likely
2008-08-06  7:42       ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-06  7:44         ` David Miller
2008-08-06  7:57         ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-06  6:32   ` David Miller
2008-08-06  6:35     ` Grant Likely
2008-08-06  7:19       ` David Miller
2008-08-07 22:37       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-06 10:21     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-08-06 10:52       ` David Miller
2008-08-06 13:31       ` Grant Likely
2008-08-06 16:25         ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-08-06 17:09           ` Mitch Bradley
2008-08-07  0:40           ` David Gibson
2008-08-07 22:35         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-06 16:46   ` Timur Tabi
2008-08-07  6:12     ` David Gibson
2008-08-07 17:28       ` Yoder Stuart
2008-08-07 17:28         ` Yoder Stuart
2008-08-07 18:11         ` Timur Tabi
2008-08-13  5:41       ` Grant Likely
2008-08-13 14:32         ` Timur Tabi
2008-08-07 22:36     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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