Discussion on SOC device tree bindings

[Grant Likely]

On 1/19/07, Yoder Stuart-B08248 <stuart.yoder at freescale.com> wrote:
>
> Back in Grant's original summary of the problem he wrote:
> >
> > 5. The contentious issue is which direction those links should be
> > constructed.  Does the device node describe where to find it's SoC
> > parent node and what the device index is?  Or does the SoC node
> > describe which device nodes it provides shared register service for?
>
> How about linking in _both_ directions?

I think that's a bad precedence.  Either representation can be
generated from the other.  Linking it in both directions means
duplicate information with no real benefit.

g.

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