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Grant Likely wrote:
> On 1/3/08, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:
>> I'd just link in both directions, and let software follow it in
>> whichever direction it prefers.
> 
> Gah!  Don't do that!  Then you need to maintain both directions in the
> dts file.  Software is good at generating reverse mappings.

Software is, however, lousy at correctly wading through 
poorly-structured data (which device trees are full of) to figure out 
how to locate the link it wants to follow backwards.

-Scott