EMAC OF binding....

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jan 30 13:49:26 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 12:50 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Does emac really vary that much between the chips its in?  I know  
> > chatting with Ben that axon did some evil things, but how much  
> > difference exists on 4xx implementations?
> 
> They all seem to have subtle differences, which is why I want the actual
> chip to be the first entry in the compatible property.

Note that the goal here is not to have different drivers bind on it, but
more to allow to use device_is_compatible() and/or use the void * data
of the probe list as a feature bits field.

Ben.




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