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From: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Sylwester Nawrocki <sylvester.nawrocki@gmail.com>,
	linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, l.krishna@samsung.com,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, joshi@samsung.com,
	inki.dae@samsung.com, kgene.kim@samsung.com,
	Vikas Sajjan <vikas.sajjan@linaro.org>,
	linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: add interrupt-names property to get interrupt resource by name
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:27:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <514794D7.3060903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514758C3.7070601@wwwdotorg.org>

On 03/18/2013 01:11 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 03/18/2013 09:50 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On 03/13/2013 05:42 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>>> Rob,
>>>
>>> On 03/13/2013 03:39 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>> I fail to see what the hack is. The order of interrupt properties must
>>>> be defined by the binding. interrupt-names is auxiliary data and must
>>>> not be required by an OS.
> 
> Is that true for all foo-names properties, or only for interrupt-names?
> I was under the impression that foo-names was specifically invented so
> that the order of the entries didn't matter, and instead they could be
> requested by name.

I think it depends on the specific name the property is tied too. For
interrupt and reg properties which have a long history and convention,
the order should be defined. IIRC, this was Grant's position too. For
new bindings, perhaps we can be more lenient.

Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-18 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-13 11:26 [PATCH] ARM: dts: add interrupt-names property to get interrupt resource by name Vikas Sajjan
2013-03-13 14:39 ` Rob Herring
2013-03-13 22:42   ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2013-03-18 15:50     ` Rob Herring
2013-03-18 18:11       ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-18 22:27         ` Rob Herring [this message]
2013-03-18 23:00           ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-18 23:05           ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-19 22:31             ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2013-03-19 21:40       ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2013-03-20  3:22         ` Vikas Sajjan
2013-03-15  4:04   ` Vikas Sajjan

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