From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Cousson, Benoit" Subject: Re: How to handle named resources with DT? Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:21:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4E42A1DC.3070501@ti.com> References: <4E4166F0.9050401@ti.com> <4E4172A8.3030101@ti.com> <4E417BD5.8080409@freescale.com> <20110809205723.GE11568@ponder.secretlab.ca> <4E41A1B9.1060400@ti.com> <20110809211747.GJ11568@ponder.secretlab.ca> <4E41AA43.1000506@ti.com> <20110809214905.GK11568@ponder.secretlab.ca> <4E41AC5C.20301@ti.com> <20110810015214.GD23511@yookeroo.fritz.box> <4E42A14B.9050308@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E42A14B.9050308-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org To: Scott Wood Cc: "Hilman, Kevin" , Paul Walmsley , "G, Manjunath Kondaiah" , "devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" , linux-omap , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 8/10/2011 5:18 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > On 08/09/2011 08:52 PM, David Gibson wrote: >> Of course, the problem with reg-names is that it will be ignored by >> older OSes, and so 'reg' must still be in the correct order. In which >> case you could argue it's more sensible to just have a static place to >> name mapping in the Linux driver. > > I think the intent was just to use this for some new bindings -- not to > change existing ones. Yes, indeed. I've just realized it was maybe not clear in my email. Thanks, Benoit