[PATCH v1 1/5] ARM: imx28: add basic dt support

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Wed Mar 14 01:38:16 EDT 2012


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:28:07AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:59:39 -0500, Zach Sadecki <zsadecki at itwatchdogs.com> wrote:
> > On 03/13/2012 09:35 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > +	ahb at 80080000 {
> > > +		fec at 800f0000 {
> > > Use generic names: ethernet at 800f0000
> > Generic is good, but consistency is better, IMHO.  grepping existing dts 
> > files in 3.2.9 finds 6 instances of "fec@" and 0 instances of "ethernet@"
> > >> +			uart1: uart at 80074000 {
> > > Use generic names: uart1: serial at ...
> > Same comment here, but unfortunately there is already inconsistency in 
> > existing files...  25 instances of "serial@" and 35 instances of "uart@"
> 
> No, Rob is correct.  The generic names recommended practice is well
> established and documented.  Expand your grep search to include
> arch/powerpc/bot/dts/*.
> 
> See section 2.2.2 of ePAPR[1]
> 
> [1]https://www.power.org/resources/downloads/Power_ePAPR_APPROVED_v1.1.pdf
> 
I will probably need to patch imx5 and imx6 dts files with the
inconsistency fixed.

-- 
Regards,
Shawn



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