[PATCH 1/6] ARM: bcm476x: Add infrastructure

[Stephen Warren]

On 10/08/2012 05:50 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi Domenico,
> 
> On Sunday 07 October 2012 03:53:01 Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>> From: Domenico Andreoli <domenico.andreoli at linux.com>
>>
>> BCM476x's minimal infrastructure, Kernel's great reuse.
>>
>> Look mom, no include/mach directory!

>> Index: b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm476x.dtsi
>> ===================================================================
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm476x.dtsi
>> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
>> +/include/ "skeleton.dtsi"
>> +
>> +/ {
>> +	compatible = "brcm,bcm476x";
>> +	model = "Broadcom BCM476x";
>> +
>> +	chosen {
>> +		bootargs = "earlyprintk";
>> +	};
>> +
>> +	amba {
> 
> I would rather explicitely mention that the peripheral base address is at 0
> so something like this:
> 
> amba at 0 {
> 
> to make it clear that the peripherals declared as leaf nodes of this one are
> at a relative address.
> 
>> +		compatible = "arm,amba-bus";
>> +		#address-cells = <1>;
>> +		#size-cells = <1>;
>> +		ranges;

You should only put a unit address ("@0") in the node name if there's a
matching reg property and the unit address is needed to make the node
name unique. Neither condition applies in this case.