[PATCH 1/4] [POWERPC] 85xx: add board support for the TQM8548 modules
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Jun 4 08:39:05 EST 2008
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:33:12AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 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:
[snip]
>>>> 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.
Yes, they're ok, given this usage.
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