[PATCH] of/pdt: allow DT device matching by fixing 'name' brokenness

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Feb 24 07:35:55 EST 2011


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:54:14AM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:43:52 -0700
> Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 07:06:59PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > Wait; why are you binding to a device based on name?  Binding by name
> > and/or device_type is strongly discouraged for new code.  Use
> > compatible instead.
> > 
> 
> Daniel posted a separate patch showing his code, would you mind
> commenting on that?  I noticed he didn't cc you though, here's the
> patch:
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/574901/

Done.

g.



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