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From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
To: John Williams <john.williams@petalogix.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, grant.likely@secretlab.ca,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjk@hansjkoch.de, arnd@arndb.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] uio/pdrv_genirq: Add OF support
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:08:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110421120855.GC2135@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimFnfgiQ5aMq_KwqHP8p92pjOJJwg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:58:25AM +1000, John Williams wrote:

> As we discussed at ELC, putting a real vendor/device in there is also
> broken because all instances in the system wil bind to the generic
> uio, which is not necessarily what is desired.

IIRC I pointed you to mpc5200b-psc devices which also have multiple functions
and have seperate bindings for these functions. It fits the "hardware
description" character of a dt, because it says this PSC is a UART or an
SPI or whatever.

Regards,

   Wolfram

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-21 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-18  8:50 [PATCH v3] uio/pdrv_genirq: Add OF support Michal Simek
2011-04-18 10:35 ` Paul Mundt
2011-04-18 11:10   ` Michal Simek
2011-04-18 16:06 ` Wolfram Sang
2011-04-19  1:58   ` John Williams
2011-04-19  6:11     ` Grant Likely
2011-04-19  7:32       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-19 12:37       ` John Williams
2011-04-19 13:02         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-19 14:49         ` Grant Likely
2011-04-19 15:07           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-19 15:45             ` Grant Likely
2011-04-21 12:08     ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2011-04-21 23:46       ` John Williams
2011-04-22  6:07         ` Wolfram Sang
2011-04-19  8:16   ` Michal Simek
2011-04-19  6:08 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-19  8:15   ` Michal Simek
2011-04-19 22:00   ` Hans J. Koch
2011-04-19 23:09     ` Scott Wood
2011-04-27 11:05   ` Michal Simek

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