[RFC PATCH 12/19] powerpc: gamecube: platform support

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 01:09 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> >>> We need it as it currently doesn't match with the default bus ids.
>> >>
>> >>> Should I introduce a .type property matching any of those above
>> >>> in the
>> >>> soc node, and get rid of the explicit bus probe?
>> >>
>> >> You don't need any fake bus as far as I can see, just probe the
>> >> devices
>> >> you want.
>> >
>> > But it's way easier to let the bus probe do it for us. I don't see
>> > the win here.
>>
>> As long as this doesn't leak into the device tree in any way, I don't
>> care.  How's that? :-)
>
> I still like having the node that encloses all the devices. Not sure
> why, but I like it :-)

I do to.  It documents that all these things are enclosed in a single
package and provides grouping device nodes with nodes describing
shared registers and the like.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.