Wrapping proprietary nodes

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Oct 26 06:15:00 EST 2010


> The device tree should represent your hardware as it is.  If these
> devices sit on some bus, then you should probably represent the
> bus, with the devices as subnodes.   Don't create logical container
> nodes unless they are warranted for some good reason.

More importantly: no device tree client should ever require such
container nodes; but also every client should allow it!

No binding should require it, unless there is something really
special of course.  If you think you have such a special case:
think again.


Segher



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