From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.230]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EED4DDF2A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 02:23:23 +1000 (EST) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i1so2914675nzh for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:23:20 -0600 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Scott Wood" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2 6/7] Uartlite: Add of-platform-bus binding In-Reply-To: <47026D5C.4050308@freescale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20070930224117.1871.87164.stgit@trillian.cg.shawcable.net> <20070930224208.1871.2913.stgit@trillian.cg.shawcable.net> <1191304386.6310.92.camel@pasglop> <871wcd33ux.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <47026D5C.4050308@freescale.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 10/2/07, Scott Wood wrote: > It would be nice, though, to merge platform and of_platform to some > extent, so that things which don't need to check "special" device tree > properties wouldn't have to make any changes other than maybe adding an > extra match table entry. yes, that would be really nice. On that note, is it possible to modify the device tree (and of_device registrations) at run time? The one feature I do really like about using the platform bus is that you can register/unregister devices at run time. Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. grant.likely@secretlab.ca (403) 399-0195