[PATCH 1/4] [POWERPC] 85xx: add board support for the TQM8548 modules

[Kumar Gala]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 5:08 AM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2008, at 9:03 PM, David Gibson wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:49:45AM +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>>>> This patch adds support for the TQM8548 modules from TQ-Components
>>>> GmbH (http://www.tqc.de).
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>> index 0000000..d09250a
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/tqm8548.dts
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,370 @@
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * TQM8548 Device Tree Source
>>>> + *
>>>> + * Copyright 2006 Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
>>>> + * Copyright 2008 Wolfgang Grandegger <wg at denx.de>
>>>> + *
>>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute  it and/or
>>>> modify it
>>>> + * under  the terms of  the GNU General  Public License as  
>>>> published
>>>> by the
>>>> + * Free Software Foundation;  either version 2 of the  License, or
>>>> (at your
>>>> + * option) any later version.
>>>> + */
>>>> +
>>>> +/dts-v1/;
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>> +        i2c at 3000 {
>>>> +            #address-cells = <1>;
>>>> +            #size-cells = <0>;
>>>> +            cell-index = <0>;
>>> [...]
>>>> +        enet0: ethernet at 24000 {
>>>> +            cell-index = <0>;
>>> [...]
>>>> +        serial0: serial at 4500 {
>>>> +            cell-index = <0>;
>>> [...]
>>>> +    pci0: pci at e0008000 {
>>>> +        cell-index = <0>;
>>>
>>> You have a whole lot of 'cell-index' properties through both these
>>> trees, and they all look wrong.  cell-index is a hack, which  
>>> should be
>>> avoided wherever practical - it should only be used when the index  
>>> is
>>> used to offset into some global register block, never simply to
>>> differentiate (use reg for that) or name the devices (use aliases  
>>> for
>>> that).
>>
>> this is why FSL device tree's have cell-index.  We have global  
>> control
>> registers that need to know such things.
>
> Should I remove them or not? OF is still a mystery for me :-(.

Don't remove them.

- k