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On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:
> Grant Likely wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why?
>>
>> Defensive programming.  To not rely on implicit relationships
>
> It doesn't seem any more likely to introduce a fault by specifying the
> interrupt controller in one place than in many places.

We do the same thing with #address-cells and #size-cells for the same
reason.  You can get away with leaving them out; but being explicit is
more clear.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.