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On 11/5/07, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > i2c@3d40 {
> >       device_type = "i2c";
> >       compatible = "mpc5200b-i2c\0mpc5200-i2c\0fsl-i2c";
> >       cell-index = <1>;
> >       reg = <3d40 40>;
> >       interrupts = <2 10 0>;
> >       interrupt-parent = <&mpc5200_pic>;
> >       fsl5200-clocking;
> >
> >       rtc@32 {
> >               device_type = "rtc";
> >               compatible = "epson,pcf8564";
> >               reg = <51>;
> >       };
> > };
>
> My only comment would be that the fsl5200-clocking property is
> totally redundant.
>
> Drivers can look at the compatible property (mpc5200b-i2c and
> mpc5200-i2c) to match up what special needs the driver may need.
> Even if it was just fsl-i2c, it could/should be implicit that
> this device is the onboard i2c and the parent node is ostensibly
> going to be marked as an MPC52xx SoC.. or it can look for the
> mpc5200-cdm node. There is no reason to invent a property just
> so you can do a property search when it replaces code of the
> same size to do a node or compatible search..

Yeah, I agree.  Drop the fsl-clocking property.  The hardware is
adequately described without it.

g.

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