From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Pinchart Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ARM: shmobile: r8a7778: add Ether DT support Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:11:17 +0200 Message-ID: <2922765.My7X58lhxd@avalon> References: <201309010311.05466.sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> <1738124.5rApJWhXUN@avalon> <1378135954.3321.5.camel@hornet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1378135954.3321.5.camel@hornet> Sender: linux-sh-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Pawel Moll Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , "horms@verge.net.au" , "linux-sh@vger.kernel.org" , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , Mark Rutland , "swarren@wwwdotorg.org" , "ian.campbell@citrix.com" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "magnus.damm@gmail.com" , "linux@arm.linux.org.uk" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Pawe=C5=82, On Monday 02 September 2013 16:32:34 Pawel Moll wrote: > On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 15:18 +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt mentions it, as wel= l as a > > couple of other DT bindings document, but there's no clear document= ation > > of what device_type should be for network device, and whether the p= roperty > > is mandatory or optional. Clarifying the documentation would be gre= at. >=20 > It's documented in the ePAPR spec: >=20 > "The device_type property was used in IEEE 1275 to describe the devic= e=E2=80=99s > FCode programming model. Because ePAPR does not have FCode, new use o= f > the property is deprecated, and it should be included only on cpu and > memory nodes for compatibility with IEEE 1275=E2=80=93derived device = trees." Thank you for the clarification. > The bottom line is - don't use it, unless you've good good reasons? I'll let Sergei share his opinion on whether we've got good reasons :-) --=20 Regards, Laurent Pinchart