[PATCH 2/5] powerpc: Generic device tree for all AmigaOne boards

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jan 8 09:38:04 EST 2009


Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
>> It doesn't seem any more likely to introduce a fault by specifying the
>> interrupt controller in one place than in many places.
> 
> We do the same thing with #address-cells and #size-cells for the same
> reason.  You can get away with leaving them out; but being explicit is
> more clear.

That's different -- the defaults for #address-cells and #size-cells are 
abitrary constants (2 and 1, respectively), not merely something that 
was defined higher in the hierarchy.

-Scott



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