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

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> 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.

And for the same reason I keep all my socks in the same drawer.  :-)

g.

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