On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Grant Likely [off-list ref] w=
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On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Saturday 21 November 2009, Grant Likely wrote:

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BTW, while looking at that file... Arnd, does the .type =3D "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. =A0Once 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.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.