am33xx: default to status = "disabled"?

Arnd Bergmann
2012-08-02T23:28:16Z

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