[PATCH 3/4] ARM: pmu: add OF probing support
Rob Herring
robherring2 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 09:40:27 EDT 2011
Mark,
On 06/13/2011 04:35 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> This is based on an earlier patch from Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>
>> Add OF match table to enable OF style driver binding. The dts entry is like
>> this:
>>
>> pmu {
>> compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-pmu";
>> interrupts = <100 101>;
>> };
>>
>> The use of pdev->id as an index breaks with OF device binding, so set the type
>> based on the OF compatible string.
>
> This modification sets the PMU hardware type based on data embedded in the
> binding, allowing easy addition of new PMU types in future.
>
> Support for new PMU types not provided by devicetree can be added later using
> platform_device_id tables in a similar fashion.
>
> Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie at jamieiles.com>
> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> ---
>
> Rob: would you be happy to merge this into your tree? or would you
> rather I sent it through Russell?
Looks good to me. I'm happy for you to take it.
Rob
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