[PATCH V2 3/3] ARM: EXYNOS: Add drm-device node to the dtsi file

Tomasz Figa tomasz.figa at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 02:51:23 EDT 2012


Hi,

On Wednesday 26 of September 2012 10:46:01 Kukjin Kim wrote:
> Please check below comments from Thomas Abraham and I agree with his
> opinion.
> 
> There cannot be a node that represents a virtual device. Device tree
> should ideally describe the hardware but the above node does not
> represent a hardware device. The creation of the platform device
> instance for the above device should handled inside the kernel code.

I don't tend to agree with this opinion. Is there any further reasoning 
behind it? Is it a current policy of the kernel that nodes should only 
represent real devices?

Best regards,
Tomasz Figa




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