From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 23:28:16 +0000
Subject: am33xx: default to status = "disabled"?
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On Thursday 02 August 2012, Daniel Mack wrote:
> currently, all devices in arch/arm/boot/dts/am33xx.dtsi are enabled by
> default. However, depending on the actual board dts, only some of the
> devices should actually be initialized, given that they only make sense
> if their pins are actually wired on the board.
> 
> On other platform, such devices are marked with status = "disabled", and
> the board files re-enable those they really use by overriding that
> status again. That approach seems to make sense - shouldn't the same be
> done in am33xx.dtsi or am I missing something?

I agree, they should be disabled, at least the serial ports, and probably
also the i2c controllers.

	Arnd