From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: "memory" binding issues
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:43:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130917164307.GA31327@quad.lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1815499.tpfeUKmP6V@flatron>
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:56:39AM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> I'm afraid that I must disagree. For consistency I'd rather go with what
> Ben said. Please see ePAPR chapter 2.2.1.1, which clearly defines how
> nodes should be named.
2.2.1.1 is there to point out that unit address _has_ to reflect reg.
2.2.3 says that unit addresses can be omitted.
> Having unit-address whenever the node has a reg property has the nice
> property of eliminating the need to rename any nodes when adding new one.
> (Consider the case that you have one subnode somewhere and you omit the
> unit-address and then you find out that you have to add another subnode
> with the same name, but another reg value.)
This motivation doesn't bother me at all -- it should be relatively rare.
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-16 2:57 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-16 15:22 ` Kumar Gala
2013-09-16 22:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-17 15:53 ` Kumar Gala
2013-09-16 16:17 ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-16 22:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-16 22:48 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-16 23:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-16 23:48 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-17 1:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-17 7:56 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-09-17 16:43 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2013-09-17 21:08 ` Frank Rowand
2013-09-17 21:15 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-17 21:19 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-09-17 21:33 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-17 23:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-17 23:25 ` Olof Johansson
2013-09-17 21:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-18 16:28 ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-19 0:29 ` David Gibson
2013-09-18 1:25 ` David Gibson
2013-09-18 1:31 ` Grant Likely
2013-09-18 1:38 ` Grant Likely
2013-09-18 8:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-18 2:57 ` Grant Likely
2013-09-18 8:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-09-27 15:42 ` Kumar Gala
2013-10-03 15:04 ` Kumar Gala
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2013-09-16 2:41 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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