[PATCH 3/6] ARM: dts: zynq: drop address cells from GIC node

Lucas Stach l.stach at pengutronix.de
Mon Apr 14 05:53:09 PDT 2014


Hi Sören,

Am Freitag, den 11.04.2014, 08:54 -0700 schrieb Sören Brinkmann:
> On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 04:59PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > This is likely a copy-and-paste error from the
> > ARM GIC documentation, that has already been fixed.
> > 
> > address-cells should have been set to 0, as with the size
> > cells. As having those properties set to 0 is the
> > same thing as not specifying them, drop them completely.
> 
> Isn't this property inherited from the parent node, requiring to
> actually set them to 0 to comply with the docs?
> 

No, it isn't. From ePAPR v1.1 section 2.3.5:
"The #address-cells and #size-cells properties are not inherited from
ancestors in the device tree. They shall be explicitly defined."

Regards,
Lucas
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