From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] [POWERPC] MPC832x_RDB: update dts to use spi, register mmc_spi stub
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:02:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070810010217.GA17370@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af4642f6ed6a4bc167161ac73ad75350@kernel.crashing.org>
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:15:44PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Hrm... Freescale is using these 'fsl,device-id' properties, I'm
> > guessing they're basically the same thing as the 'cell-index' used in
> > the EMAC binding.
> >
> > We should co-ordinate better on this, if it's to become a
> > convention...
>
> That means we shouldn't coordinate on this, right?
Heh. Either one is kind of ugly, I'll grant you.
But, many SoCs do have a notion of device "number", which is relevant
for programming other general control registers in places. We need to
encode it somehow, and it would be good to have a consistent way of
doing it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-10 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 17:07 [PATCH v3 0/2] SPI support for fsl_soc and mpc832x_rdb Anton Vorontsov
2007-08-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] [POWERPC] MPC832x_RDB: update dts to use spi, register mmc_spi stub Anton Vorontsov
2007-08-09 3:07 ` David Gibson
2007-08-09 20:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-10 1:02 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-08-10 20:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-12 8:16 ` David Gibson
2007-08-12 11:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] [POWERPC] fsl_soc: add support for fsl_spi Anton Vorontsov
2007-08-09 5:33 ` Kumar Gala
2007-08-09 5:34 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] SPI support for fsl_soc and mpc832x_rdb Kumar Gala
2007-08-09 20:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
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