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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 07:38:42 -0600
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Nowadays, any struct device can be linked to an OF device node thanks to
> the archdata extension that we added to the generic struct device. One
> of the idea we have in mind is to create a simple mechanism that
> "intanciate" devices based on probing them in the tree, regardless of
> the actual bus and linux device "type" (platform, PCI, i2c, ...).

Which is actually exactly what happens now for i2c, spi and (in .31)
mdio.  of_platform is the exception.  a really big elephant of an
exception, but an excpection never the less.

g.

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