On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: > >> And it does. It does so by the unique "regs" properties and >> unit-names. You can assign the index that the i2c subsystem needs >> based on probe order, like I already said. > > The probe order is not sufficient on platforms that specifically enumerate > their > I2C (or whatever) devices. For instance, in order to do audio playback on an > MPC8610, SSI1 needs to use DMA channel 0. The SSI driver specifically needs > to > find the register addresses for DMA channel 0.
then you use a phandle for that; but that entirely different from bus enumeration because it describes a real property of the hardware. Cheers, g. > > -- > Timur Tabi > Linux kernel developer at Freescale > -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
