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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:59:07 -0500
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [RFC] GPIO-Watchdog in devicetree
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 09:02:56AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> For example:
> / {
> 	model = "pengutronix,super-sexy-board";
> 	#address-cells = <1>;
> 	#size-cells = <1>;
> 	super-sexy-board,watchdog-gpio = <&gpio_simple 19 0>;
> 	...
> }

Why as a property of the root node, and not as a node with a very
specific compatible property?

-Scott