From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:16:04 +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: <20070812081604.GA6458@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070808170728.GA21118@localhost.localdomain> <20070808170921.GA21487@localhost.localdomain> <20070809030752.GB8261@localhost.localdomain> <20070810010217.GA17370@localhost.localdomain> <5cad6d634a7cb6c8c37adbb15db8dfc2@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <5cad6d634a7cb6c8c37adbb15db8dfc2@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:42:51PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > >>> 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. > > I'm not convinced there isn't a more direct way to represent > the relevant relationships. > > Either way, we don't have enough experience with this stuff > yet to know what works well and what doesn't (at least, I > don't, and I haven't seen any evidence that others do); so > I'd prefer to keep this in per-device bindings for now; it > should be there anyhow, but once we do have experience with > it we could do some recommendation. Well of course it will remain in the per-device bindings. But just because these are in different per-device bindings doesn't mean we can't *try* to use consistent property names for similar things... -- 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