On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Scott Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > Grant Likely wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Scott Wood <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Why? >> >> Defensive programming. To not rely on implicit relationships > > It doesn't seem any more likely to introduce a fault by specifying the > interrupt controller in one place than in many places.
We do the same thing with #address-cells and #size-cells for the same reason. You can get away with leaving them out; but being explicit is more clear. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
