From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: "memory" binding issues
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:47:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1379375239.3721.51.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOesGMgE1jiF5OHsmPQz2z66Bcqu0HeAj=taE1vmFK-0-0s2TQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 15:48 -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > A node that has a "reg" property should have the corresponding unit
> > address.
>
> No, absolutely _NOT_ a requirement. Unit address is only required if
> needed to disambiguate two properties with the same name.
>
> If there are no ambiguities, then leaving off the unit address is much
> preferred.
I disagree :-)
Also this would be only true of our find_node_by_path was capable of
handling it, which it isn't. Thus you end up with generic code looking
for /memory and finding nothing ...
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-16 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-16 2:57 "memory" binding issues Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-16 15:22 ` Kumar Gala
2013-09-16 22:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-17 15:53 ` Kumar Gala
2013-09-16 16:17 ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-16 22:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-16 22:48 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-16 23:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-09-16 23:48 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-17 1:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-17 7:56 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-09-17 16:43 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-17 21:08 ` Frank Rowand
2013-09-17 21:15 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-17 21:19 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-09-17 21:33 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-17 23:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-17 23:25 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-17 21:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-18 16:28 ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-19 0:29 ` David Gibson
2013-09-18 1:25 ` David Gibson
2013-09-18 1:31 ` Grant Likely
2013-09-18 1:38 ` Grant Likely
2013-09-18 8:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-18 2:57 ` Grant Likely
2013-09-18 8:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-27 15:42 ` Kumar Gala
2013-10-03 15:04 ` Kumar Gala
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2013-09-16 2:41 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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