[PATCH] of: support an enumerated-bus compatible value

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:27:15AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> Why would you want to instantiate devices that you cannot address
> at all anyway?  The only driver that can know what to do with the
> device node is the driver for the device that has the phandle
> reference to it; it can instantiate it.

It's not a single device referencing it, it's multiple devices
referencing it, and we can do useful things even with no external
references at all.  The node itself is a real thing that we can point at
and control (using GPIOs or something similar).