Re: [PATCH] of: support an enumerated-bus compatible value

On 07/02/2012 03:43 PM, Grant Likely wrote:

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Stephen Warren [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 07/01/2012 04:03 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
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Besides; if they are enumerated, non-memory mapped devices, then is it
really appropriate to use platform_{device,driver}? I don't think it
is.

Hmm, well /everything/ that gets instantiated from DT is a platform
device at present, at least for the platforms and bus types we're using
on Tegra and I believe all/most ARM platforms, except some small amounts
of AMBA.

Not true.  SPI devices beget spi_device, i2c devices i2c_client, etc.
The appropriate structure for the kind of device should always be
used.

Yes, that's true.

But doesn't that lend even more weight to the need for an enumerated-bus
bus-type/compatible value? After all, the more important issue here (at
least initially) is the DT representation that we're defining, rather
than what Linux does with it internally.