From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from buildserver.ru.mvista.com (unknown [85.21.88.6]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8198DDDE09 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:50:49 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:50:46 +0400 From: Anton Vorontsov To: Matt Sealey Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_type = "rtc" properties in .dts files Message-ID: <20081022135046.GA30347@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> References: <20081021185844.GA31070@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <48FF2CBB.7060605@genesi-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 In-Reply-To: <48FF2CBB.7060605@genesi-usa.com> Cc: Scott Wood , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Guennadi Liakhovetski Reply-To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2