[PATCH 4/4] booting-without-of for Freescale MSI

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue May 6 20:44:22 EST 2008


>>> +    - compatible : should be "fsl,MPIC-MSI" for 85xx/86xx cpu,
>>> +      and "fsl,IPIC-MSI" for 83xx cpu.
>>
>> Please use a more specific name, "fsl,8599-msi" or similar?
>>
>
> Thanks for your input. I think the name "fsl,MPIC-MSI" and
> "fsl,IPIC-MSI"
> is somethind specific.

This is the third MSI-on-MPIC I've seen, and I doubt it will be the
last.  It is likely FSL will make some different one in the future,
as well.

Please don't use generic names for specific devices.


Segher




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