[PATCH] Add MPC837xEMDS PCIE RC mode support

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Dec 1 02:12:01 EST 2007


On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:14:04PM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:45:34AM +0800, Li Li wrote:
> > +	help
> > +	  Enables MPC837x PCI express RC mode
> 
> Why have a separate config option for this?

To save code size when it isn't needed?

> For systems where you don't want PCI-e configured, it should be left
> out of the device tree instead.

The dts should represent what exists on the hardware, not what you want to
use.

-Scott



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