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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Jin Zhengxiong" <Jason.Jin@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] booting-without-of for Freescale MSI
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:44:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d731595be98f00bf5387444b88de4883@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CC27DED0F8F39E48A7E75FD768688B7A8C1399@zch01exm27.fsl.freescale.net>

>>> +    - compatible : should be "fsl,MPIC-MSI" for 85xx/86xx cpu,
>>> +      and "fsl,IPIC-MSI" for 83xx cpu.
>>
>> Please use a more specific name, "fsl,8599-msi" or similar?
>>
>
> Thanks for your input. I think the name "fsl,MPIC-MSI" and
> "fsl,IPIC-MSI"
> is somethind specific.

This is the third MSI-on-MPIC I've seen, and I doubt it will be the
last.  It is likely FSL will make some different one in the future,
as well.

Please don't use generic names for specific devices.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05  7:47 [PATCH 1/4 V3] MSI support on 83xx/85xx/86xx board Jason Jin
2008-05-05  7:47 ` [PATCH 2/4 V2] Enable MSI support for MPC8610HPCD board Jason Jin
2008-05-05  7:47   ` [PATCH 3/4] Enable MSI support for 85xxds board Jason Jin
2008-05-05  7:47     ` [PATCH 4/4] booting-without-of for Freescale MSI Jason Jin
2008-05-05 18:00       ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-05-06  9:23         ` Jin Zhengxiong
2008-05-06 10:44           ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2008-05-07  9:35             ` Jin Zhengxiong
2008-05-05 11:24 ` [PATCH 1/4 V3] MSI support on 83xx/85xx/86xx board Michael Ellerman
2008-05-06  9:23   ` Jin Zhengxiong

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