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Subject: RE: [PATCH] Directly reference i8259@4d0 nodes in mpc8641_hpcn.dts.
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 13:54 +0800, Zhang Wei-r63237 wrote:
> Is it a good idea? Why we can not endure the "linux,phandle = <4d0>" in
> i8259 node? And besides, this node was already referenced by the other
> entries.

Because magic numbers are evil and nice names are better ? :)

> Using "&/soc8641@f8000000/pci@8000/i8259@4d0" or label seems so verbose
> and weird.