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On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 04:28 +0300, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> Added 8xx SoC peripherials: fec for Ethernet and smc for UARTs.
> Ordinary routines to extract values from the device tree and insert respective
> platform devices

Note that imho, that's at best a temporary thing. It would be much
better to have these drivers register as of_platform_driver's and have
the platform code publish of_platform_device's for all SoC nodes.

Ben.