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From: Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks.com>
To: Li Yang-R58472 <LeoLi@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] More compatibles or more quirk properties
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:32:38 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B0D196.7080207@firmworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A45394FD742FA419B760BB8D398F9ED29E274@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net>

>
> I'm running into a dilemma choosing between two approaches of defining device tree binding.  Let's say if we have several chips with a similar SoC block, but each of them have different quirks.  If I define different compatibles for each of the chips, the driver will have a longer match table and thus bloat the device matching process.  Or we can use a same compatible for all of them and  define properties for each of the quirks.  But it somewha
Properties to describe quirks precisely are definitely better.  In fact, 
that's fundamental principle - describe the situation, don't infer a 
bunch of details from a name.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-06  7:09 [RFC] More compatibles or more quirk properties Li Yang-R58472
2009-03-06  7:32 ` Mitch Bradley [this message]

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