From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] [POWERPC] Ignore disabled serial ports
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:09:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080303190925.GA6735@loki.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080302224317.15f259ca@zod.rchland.ibm.com>
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:43:17PM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 04:43:42 +0100
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > I wonder whether we should move the check for "used-by-rtas" into the
> > of_device_is_available function. I understand that used-by-rtas is
> > another way of expressing the idea that the kernel is not supposed to
> > access the specific device. In this case, the device is physically
> > present, but is not available to the OS.
>
> I'd rather not at the moment. My intention was to only look at the
> status property for now. I'd like to avoid this function growing into
> a huge switch statement for $random_firmware's way of flagging
> something as "don't touch".
Better that than having the "huge" list of tests in every driver...
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-03 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-01 14:16 [PATCH 1/2 v2] [OF] Add of_device_is_available function Josh Boyer
2008-03-01 14:17 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] [POWERPC] Ignore disabled serial ports Josh Boyer
2008-03-03 3:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-03-03 4:43 ` Josh Boyer
2008-03-03 19:09 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-03-03 19:21 ` Josh Boyer
2008-03-03 21:40 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-03-04 0:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-03-01 14:41 ` [PATCH 3/2][NEWEMAC] Use status property for unused/unwired EMACs Josh Boyer
2008-03-01 21:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-01 23:50 ` Josh Boyer
2008-03-02 19:43 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-03-02 22:23 ` Josh Boyer
2008-03-01 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] [OF] Add of_device_is_available function Stephen Rothwell
2008-03-01 22:25 ` Josh Boyer
2008-03-01 23:48 ` [RESEND] " Josh Boyer
2008-03-24 11:39 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-24 11:45 ` Josh Boyer
2008-03-25 4:47 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-03-25 11:51 ` Josh Boyer
2008-03-26 14:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
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