From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:02:17 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] [POWERPC] MPC832x_RDB: update dts to use spi, register mmc_spi stub Message-ID: <20070810010217.GA17370@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070808170728.GA21118@localhost.localdomain> <20070808170921.GA21487@localhost.localdomain> <20070809030752.GB8261@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson