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From: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] GRETH: added option to disable a device node from
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:45:48 +0100
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David Miller wrote:

>From: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com>
>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:25:27 +0100
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>>Signed-off-by: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com>
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>This is not how you do this.
>
>Simply not present the device in the OpenFirmware tree at all.  If you
>can make this special properly appear, you can also toss the device
>node away completely.
>
>There is zero reason whatsoever to create a special hack-job
>non-standardized device node properly to do this.
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I agree, I will remove it. The optional parameter should be a setting 
for a particular device rather that a "disable device" parameter.

Thanks,
Daniel