[PATCH 1/2] ARM: PRIMA2: add of_dev_auxdata table for I2C, SPI, UART and PINCTRL

[Barry Song]

2012/7/4 Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>:
> On Wednesday 04 July 2012, Barry Song wrote:
>> > If it's about the pinctrl and clock parts, can't you just uses the
>> > generate names like "b0050000.uart" directly?
>>
>> yes. names like "b0050000.uart"  really work, and i have enabled and
>> tested names like that in clock driver.
>> but would people think them ugly?
>
> No, that's fine.
>
>> and what would the clock driver support two SoCs whose uarts have
>> different map base address?
>
> If they are different SoCs, then it would be likely be a different clock
> that is connected to the UART.
>
> A better solution is to use the new DT clock bindings to replace the
> clock lookup in the source code. Have a look at
> git://git.linaro.org/people/mturquette/linux.git to see how others
> do this in new kernels.

ok. thanks. recently i have missed many threads due to some other work issues.
i'll look into Rob Herring's "clk: add DT clock binding support".

>
>         Arnd

-barry