Re: [PATCHv10 2/2] arm: dts: Add Altera SDRAM EDAC bindings & devicetree entries.

[Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:47:09AM -0500, Thor Thayer wrote:
> Hi Steffen!
> 
> Building on Alan's points, I don't see the reference to the child
> nodes in the syscon.txt binding documentation - can you point out
> what I'm missing?
> 
> I based this patch on other examples of syscon, and there aren't
> child nodes (exynos5250.dtsi, omap3.dtsi, etc). According to my
> understanding of the device tree parsing, the parent needs to
> register child nodes. Since syscon is the parent and doesn't
> register the child nodes, they won't be automatically probed. The
> other syscon implementations are at the same level as the syscon and
> use a phandle to the syscon (for instance the omap3.dtsi).
> 
> Thanks for reviewing!
> 
> Thor

Hm, I looked in one of my many directories with some version of the
kernel tree checked out, but ... you are right.
I can't find where I read that. Seems like I got confused somewhere...
There is now version of syscon.txt that mentions anything about childs.

Should have drank my morning coffee first.

Regards,
Steffen

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