On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:38:46AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > The more I think about it, the more I tend to agree that tagging isn't > necessary and you are right. We should just match the name against the > "compatible" property of the OF nodes (which mean we need to support > multiple matches though since "compatible" is a list of strings).
It may not be strictly necessary, but I think it's a good idea not just for safety reasons, but as an indication to the driver what additional information it has access to. We could put a match data pointer in the i2c device, and have it be a valid node pointer if the match was an OF one (and a device-specific struct for a straight platform device, etc). This could be useful if a device needs to have more properties than standard address/type/interrupt for some reason. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
