RFC: replace device_type with new "class" property?

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:34:40PM -0700, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
> 
> Here's an example of what I'm trying to get at-- take 
> a node from a FSL device tree.  The ideas I've heard
> for expressing the class are like this--
> 
> #1  don't express any class at all:
> 
>   ucc at 2200 {
>         compatible = "fsl,ucc_geth";
>         model = "UCC";
>         device-id = <3>;
>         reg = <2200 200>;
>         interrupts = <22>;
>         interrupt-parent = < &qeic >;
>         mac-address = [ 00 00 00 00 00 00 ];
>         local-mac-address = [ 00 00 00 00 00 00 ];
>         rx-clock = <19>;
>         tx-clock = <1a>;
>         phy-handle = < &phy3 >;
>         pio-handle = < &pio3 >;
>   
> 
>   > This is bad IMHO because the human reader has to
>   > infer the class of device.  Can the human reader
>   > tell if it implements a standardized binding or
>   > not??

Well... except that by the generic names convention, the node should
be called "ethernet at 2200", which makes it rather clearer to a human
reader.

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