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From: Philipp Zabel <pza@pengutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 6/8] of: Implement simplified graph binding for single
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 06:38:02PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed,  5 Mar 2014 10:20:40 +0100, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > For simple devices with only one port, it can be made implicit.
> > The endpoint node can be a direct child of the device node.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
> 
> Ergh... I think this is too loosely defined. The caller really should be
> explicit about which behaviour it needs. I'll listen to arguments
> though if you can make a strong argument.

I have dropped this patch and the corresponding documentation patch for
now. This simplification is a separate issue from the move and there is
no consensus yet.
Basically the main issue with the port { endpoint { remote-endpoint=... } }
binding is that it is very verbose if you just need a single link.
Instead of removing the port node, we could also remove the endpoint node
and have the remote-endpoint property direcly in the port node.

regards
Philipp