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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.



  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-16  2:41 Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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