New fsl device bindings file

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Mon Jul 7 11:39:02 EST 2008


On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:24:56AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> On Jul 3, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
>
>>> How about splitting up like this:
>>>
>>> Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/fsl/cpm.txt
>>> Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/fsl/cpm/uart.txt
>>> Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/fsl/tsec.txt
>>> Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/interrupts.txt
>>> Documentation/powerpc/device-tree/dtb.txt
>>
>> May I suggest moving it to Documentation/of-bindings/ instead?  Some
>> of these bindings (granted, not the fsl ones) will be used by
>> non-powerpc platforms (sparc, microblaze).
>
> Good idea, but:
>
> Don't call the bindings OF. They're not.
>
> They are a linux-specific binding that happens to use the same data  
> structures and representation that OF does.

Well... they may be Linux specific by default, but they're supposed to
be general enough that they (or at least, very small extensions)
*could* become official OF bindings, if there was still an OF group to
make them so.  It certainly should be possible to use these bindings
in a firmware which provides an OF client interface as well as in
flat-tree-only firmwares which don't.

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