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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:40:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: CSR: Adding CSR SiRFprimaII board support
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On Wednesday 06 July 2011 09:03:45 Barry Song wrote:
> but it seems we will still add "sirf,alsta6-intc" in intc driver if
> that really happen in the future. in my understanding, drivers should
> explicitly claim all chips or ip cores they can support.

I don't think there is a need for that. I'd only add the second
one if there is a need in the driver to tell the difference.
In that case, you can add a data field to the device_id and use
that for making decisions in the driver.

	Arnd