[PATCH] of: Have of_device_add call platform_device_add rather than device_add
Jason Gunthorpe
jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Thu Nov 22 05:14:30 EST 2012
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 06:07:46PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Which is nesting the generic gpio driver under a larger region..
>
> Try two sibling nodes with overlapping addresses. There are powerpc
> device trees doing that even though it isn't legal by the ofw and
> epapr specs.
Both my examples were using sibling nodes in the OF tree.
pex at e0000000 {
device_type = "pci";
ranges = <0x02000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xe0000000 0x0 0x8000000>;
bus-range = <0x0 0xFF>;
chip at 0 {
ranges = <0x02000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x02000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0 0x8000000>;
chip_control at 0 {
compatible = "orc,chip,control";
assigned-addresses = <0x02000000 0x0 0x0 0x0 4096>;
};
gpio3: chip_gpio at 8 {
#gpio-cells = <2>;
compatible = "linux,basic-mmio-gpio";
gpio-controller;
reg-names = "dat", "set", "dirin";
assigned-addresses = <0x02000000 0x0 0x8 0x0 4>,
<0x02000000 0x0 0xc 0x0 4>,
<0x02000000 0x0 0x10 0x0 4>;
};
Non-conformant yes, but it is the simplest way to get linux to bind
two drivers to the same memory space.
Jason
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