[PATCH] powerpc: add of_find_next_property andof_get_aliased_index

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:41:12PM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On Thursday 26 June 2008, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> > > Well, there's a lot of disagreement on this subject.  Not only do we
> > > not agree on a method of enumerating devices, a lot of people have a
> > > problem with the concept of enumerating them in the first place!
> >
> > An interesting point is that I enforced an index in the i2c-ibm_iic
> > driver with no disagreement at all ;)
> 
> You have been lucky I suppose. :)

Ah... that's because IIC does have a correct reason to have cell-index
- like most of the 4xx devices, we may need the index for programming
the CPM power control retisters - and we didn't notice you were also
using for the incorrect purpose of supplying an index to the i2c
layer.

Please note that cell-index *does* *not* *work* for the global index
if there are multiple SoC-like units in the system.  For its correct
purpose of indexing the CPM registers, cell-index must be local to the
SoC, for the global index it must not.

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