[PATCH v2] ARM: CSR: Adding CSR SiRFprimaII board support

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Jul 6 03:40:34 EDT 2011


On Wednesday 06 July 2011 09:03:45 Barry Song wrote:
> but it seems we will still add "sirf,alsta6-intc" in intc driver if
> that really happen in the future. in my understanding, drivers should
> explicitly claim all chips or ip cores they can support.

I don't think there is a need for that. I'd only add the second
one if there is a need in the driver to tell the difference.
In that case, you can add a data field to the device_id and use
that for making decisions in the driver.

	Arnd



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