[RFC][PATCH 6/8] Walnut DTS
Yoder Stuart-B08248
stuart.yoder at freescale.com
Tue Jul 17 07:55:21 EST 2007
[snip]
> There is no child device node, but there are child interrupt
> nodes, and
> since the interrupt-tree uses #address/size-cells, it does make some
> sense to specify them.
>
> Yes, there is a default value when absent, but the simple
> fact that the
> default is different depending if you are doing a device walk or an
> interrupt tree walk is very confusing. As I said above, the default
> values are a source of more problem than anything else and I tend to
> think they should be banned.
>
> I would personally be inclined to define that whatever spec we come up
> with always require #address-cells/#size-cells for any node that can
> have either device children or interrupt children, and ban default
> values alltogether.
Did you really mean #size-cells here? Shouldn't it be #interrupt-cells?
Stuart
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