From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from de01egw01.freescale.net (de01egw01.freescale.net [192.88.165.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "de01egw01.freescale.net", Issuer "Thawte Premium Server CA" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D82BDDEF5 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 04:53:47 +1000 (EST) Received: from de01smr01.freescale.net (de01smr01.freescale.net [10.208.0.31]) by de01egw01.freescale.net (8.12.11/de01egw01) with ESMTP id l4HIrg2t011883 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:53:42 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <464CA4B4.7070202@freescale.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:53:40 -0500 From: Scott Wood MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] PCI fixes for the MPC8641 Rev 2.0 silicon and Rev 1.02hardware References: <1179245829.8132.100.camel@rhino> <1179247809.8132.138.camel@rhino> <46B96294322F7D458F9648B60E15112C23441B@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net> <1179417813.8132.250.camel@rhino> <744CD970-5421-47D6-A30A-C7C79BE21BE8@kernel.crashing.org> <1179421139.8132.256.camel@rhino> <464CA302.9060707@freescale.com> <464CA380.2020705@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: <464CA380.2020705@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-dev , Zhang Wei-r63237 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Timur Tabi wrote: > One more thing - I think each DTS file should specify which revision of the board it > supports, and there should be code in U-Boot and/or Linux to check that revision and > reject the device tree if there's a mismatch. We don't want people accidentally using the > wrong device tree and wondering why it doesn't work. We also don't want people using a perfectly good device tree on a newer revision of the board that just fixes things and doesn't make any device-tree-relevant changes, and wondering why it doesn't work due to a failed revision check. -Scott