From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_type = "rtc" properties in .dts files
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:50:46 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081022135046.GA30347@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48FF2CBB.7060605@genesi-usa.com>
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:38:03AM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
> I'm extremely troubled that it is "not used in the code", surely
> device_type is checked as a legacy for Open Firmware (otherwise a lot of
> devices may never be detected!),
Checked where? Can you point out a code snippet? (Except for CHRP
platforms, the CHRP is running real OF, so it is irrelevant if it
checks for device_type = "rtc" or not.)
> or does device tree parsing/checking
> follow a different path for FDT?
>
> (absolutely fine with it being removed from new DTS but, just concerned
> about your comment and it's impact...)
--
Anton Vorontsov
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-22 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 18:58 [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_type = "rtc" properties in .dts files Anton Vorontsov
2008-10-21 19:37 ` Grant Likely
2008-10-22 0:04 ` David Gibson
2008-10-22 13:38 ` Matt Sealey
2008-10-22 13:50 ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2008-10-22 18:40 ` Matt Sealey
2008-10-22 18:59 ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-10-22 19:09 ` Matt Sealey
2008-10-22 19:28 ` Anton Vorontsov
[not found] <C3C48FF2CBB.7060605@genesi-usa.com>
2008-10-22 20:38 ` Milton Miller
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