From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.171]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B83DDEBB7 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:41:16 +1000 (EST) From: Stefan Roese To: Sean MacLennan Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add of_find_next_property andof_get_aliased_index Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:41:12 +0200 References: <1214424332-18496-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <4863BBE2.2060107@freescale.com> <20080626142732.0ff6e64c@lappy.seanm.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080626142732.0ff6e64c@lappy.seanm.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200806262041.12275.sr@denx.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Timur Tabi List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thursday 26 June 2008, Sean MacLennan wrote: > > Well, there's a lot of disagreement on this subject. Not only do we > > not agree on a method of enumerating devices, a lot of people have a > > problem with the concept of enumerating them in the first place! > > An interesting point is that I enforced an index in the i2c-ibm_iic > driver with no disagreement at all ;) You have been lucky I suppose. :) I could easily just have used this existing "index" property for the other 4xx boards, but expected NAK's for this. That and because FSL uses "cell-index" is why I asked prior to sending patches. Now I have no idea how to support I2C on the other 4xx boards. Perhaps Josh could advise how this should be done? Best regards, Stefan