On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:17:45PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
>>
>> No, no, no, no, no. Making complex multi-level representations of
>> nested things for gpios is just insanity.
>
>
> You know, I don't find this "argument" particularly compelling. But it
> certainly is strongly worded.
>
>> Just use the same encoded
>> format as we already use for gpio descriptors in 'gpios' properties
>> (which is gpio controller specific, with length defined by
>> #gpio-cells).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion
Don't be patronising.
There is an existing address space defined by the gpio binding.
Defining another one is pointless redundancy. This is standard good
ideas in computer science, no further argument necessary.
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