am33xx: default to status = "disabled"?

Hiremath, Vaibhav hvaibhav at ti.com
Fri Aug 3 05:31:50 EDT 2012


On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:58:16, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 02 August 2012, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > currently, all devices in arch/arm/boot/dts/am33xx.dtsi are enabled by
> > default. However, depending on the actual board dts, only some of the
> > devices should actually be initialized, given that they only make sense
> > if their pins are actually wired on the board.
> > 
> > On other platform, such devices are marked with status = "disabled", and
> > the board files re-enable those they really use by overriding that
> > status again. That approach seems to make sense - shouldn't the same be
> > done in am33xx.dtsi or am I missing something?
> 
> I agree, they should be disabled, at least the serial ports, and probably
> also the i2c controllers.
> 

You are right, it needs to be disabled. I will create a patch and submit it.

Thanks,
Vaibhav





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