From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <20070812081604.GA6458@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070808170728.GA21118@localhost.localdomain> <20070808170921.GA21487@localhost.localdomain> <20070809030752.GB8261@localhost.localdomain> <20070810010217.GA17370@localhost.localdomain> <5cad6d634a7cb6c8c37adbb15db8dfc2@kernel.crashing.org> <20070812081604.GA6458@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <45bcb777f652ce509b8945ed2a9f67ee@kernel.crashing.org> From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] [POWERPC] MPC832x_RDB: update dts to use spi, register mmc_spi stub Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:36:41 +0200 To: David Gibson Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , >>> But, many SoCs do have a notion of device "number", which is relevant >>> for programming other general control registers in places. We need >>> to >>> encode it somehow, and it would be good to have a consistent way of >>> doing it. >> >> I'm not convinced there isn't a more direct way to represent >> the relevant relationships. >> >> Either way, we don't have enough experience with this stuff >> yet to know what works well and what doesn't (at least, I >> don't, and I haven't seen any evidence that others do); so >> I'd prefer to keep this in per-device bindings for now; it >> should be there anyhow, but once we do have experience with >> it we could do some recommendation. > > Well of course it will remain in the per-device bindings. But just > because these are in different per-device bindings doesn't mean we > can't *try* to use consistent property names for similar things... Sure, if those properties do exactly the same thing, identical names are a good thing. Until we're reasonably certain that this is a good way to do things I'd rather people experiment a bit instead of all cluster around a random thing that would be labeled "de facto standard". :-) Segher