[PATCH 05/13] Document the fsl, magic-packet property in gianfar nodes.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu May 10 04:26:30 EST 2007


On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:33:12PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>>> As I previously wrote internally, it's only needed because some
> >>>> versions of the device have it and some don't; what it really means
> >>>> is that certain bits in certain registers are valid.
> 
> So have the driver detect this based on "compatible"
> or "model".

Thus requiring the driver to maintain a list of models/compatibles for
every possible combination of features, rather than letting the device
tree specify them individually.  What would be the advantage in that?

-Scott



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