From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: powerpc_flash_init(), wtf!?
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 19:25:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6d461fe5adb92e08ba5bf920c4027fb@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463A14E6.5010608@ru.mvista.com>
>>> BTW, is it legal/appropriate to specify device (not bus) types
>>> for
>>> of_platform_bus_probe()?
>
>> In almost all cases you should probe on "name"/"compatible",
>
> Probing on name is not a good idea, since those are mostly generic.
The OF standard tells you to probe on "name" before
probing on "compatible". If the "name" in a certain
node is generic, that doesn't harm at all, since you
probe for the more specific names only.
>> and not use "device_type" at all.
>
> Heh, SPARC device trees I saw seem to not have this "useless" prop
> at all. :-)
Well they have it in the nodes for which they _should_
have it, but not anywhere else no.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 5:18 powerpc_flash_init(), wtf!? David Gibson
2007-05-03 6:35 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-05-03 7:03 ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 12:02 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 12:22 ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 13:28 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 16:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 16:59 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 17:25 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-05-03 21:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-03 23:49 ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 12:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-04 0:30 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-05-04 1:28 ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 11:47 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 12:30 ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 13:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 16:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 17:17 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 17:35 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 18:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 21:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-03 17:53 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 18:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 23:56 ` David Gibson
2007-05-04 12:14 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-05 17:36 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-05 20:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
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2007-05-23 21:57 Mark A. Greer
2007-05-24 0:56 ` David Gibson
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