* Frank Rowand [off-list ref] [160908 12:18]:

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On 09/08/16 08:58, Tony Lindgren wrote:

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Just to consider other ways of doing it, we could use the compatible
flag to tag devices that need to be just idled on probe, but that does
not seem like generic solution to me.

Yuck.  Again overloading a property to convey multiple pieces of
information.

I should have been more explicit in that statement.

If the hardware device does not have "wires" routed to a connector or
bus then it is still the same device.  Thus the compatible should be
the same.

The difference is the way the device is used in the SOC or board.

That is correct. The device is exactly the same.

Regards,

Tony