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From: linus.walleij@linaro.org (Linus Walleij)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:55:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] amba: add name based matching
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> I really hate the idea of matching AMBA stuff by name. ?Isn't there any
> other solution to this?

The second option I would try is to add a field to the platform data
for pl022 and mmci/pl180 such as "u8 silicon_revision" and encode
that with some 0x01, 0x02, 0x03... for the silicon revisions that
matter to behaviour.

Would you prefer this approach?

Yours,
Linus Walleij