[PATCH] Directly reference i8259 at 4d0 nodes in mpc8641_hpcn.dts.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Aug 18 17:21:45 EST 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 13:54 +0800, Zhang Wei-r63237 wrote:
> Is it a good idea? Why we can not endure the "linux,phandle = <4d0>" in
> i8259 node? And besides, this node was already referenced by the other
> entries.

Because magic numbers are evil and nice names are better ? :)

> Using "&/soc8641 at f8000000/pci at 8000/i8259 at 4d0" or label seems so verbose
> and weird.






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