The usage of compatible 'simple-bus'

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Jan 6 06:20:53 EST 2009


On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:27:39PM +0800, Li Yang wrote:
> I got an assumption from the existing device trees that having
> 'simple-bus' in the compatible property of a node means that all child
> nodes should be added as of_platform_device in platform initialization
> phase.  No matter it represents a bus in common sense or not.  Is this
> truly the case? 

Yes, simple-bus indicates that the children can be driven standalone from
any knowledge of the parent bus.

> Shall we document this?

It is documented in ePAPR.

-Scott



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