On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: >> On Saturday 21 November 2009, Grant Likely wrote: >>> BTW, while looking at that file... Arnd, does the .type = "serial" >>> stuff really need to be there? >> >> Well, serial is one of the few that actually has some preexisting >> binding with a well defined device-type, so I guess we should use >> it. > > But device-type describes a OpenFirmware API, not a device register > interface. Once we're in the kernel and talking to the hardware > directly, device-type has no real meaning because we're not using the > OpenFirmware interface to talk to serial devices in a generic manner.
And looking for it in the driver forces us to put meaningless "device_type" properties in the flat trees, where they make no sense whatsoever. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
