Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add of_find_next_property andof_get_aliased_index
From: David Gibson <hidden>
Date: 2008-06-27 01:30:31
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:41:12PM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Sean MacLennan wrote:quoted
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Well, there's a lot of disagreement on this subject. Not only do we not agree on a method of enumerating devices, a lot of people have a problem with the concept of enumerating them in the first place!An interesting point is that I enforced an index in the i2c-ibm_iic driver with no disagreement at all ;)You have been lucky I suppose. :)
Ah... that's because IIC does have a correct reason to have cell-index - like most of the 4xx devices, we may need the index for programming the CPM power control retisters - and we didn't notice you were also using for the incorrect purpose of supplying an index to the i2c layer. Please note that cell-index *does* *not* *work* for the global index if there are multiple SoC-like units in the system. For its correct purpose of indexing the CPM registers, cell-index must be local to the SoC, for the global index it must not. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson