On Nov 25, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> +    * Freescale 8xxx/3.0 Gb/s SATA nodes
>> +
>> +    SATA nodes are defined to describe on-chip Serial ATA  
>> controllers.
>> +    Each SATA port should have its own node.
>> +
>> +    Required properties:
>> +    - compatible        : compatible list, contains 2 entries,  
>> first is
>> +                        "fsl,sata-CHIP", where CHIP is the processor
>> +                        (mpc8315, mpc8379, etc.) and the second is
>> +                        "fsl,sata-pq2pro"
>> +    - interrupts        : <interrupt mapping for SATA IRQ>
>> +    - interrupt-parent  : optional, if needed for interrupt mapping
>> +    - reg               : <registers mapping>
>> +
>
> Should this maybe also mandate a compatible property that is defined
> in a way to match the generic (p)ata_of_platform driver?

Is there something about the (p)ata_of_platform driver you think we  
can use.  The SATA controller here is a unique piece of HW and  
requires a unique driver so I'm not sure what we get from  
(p)ata_of_platform.

- k
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