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

Sören Brinkmann soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com
Mon Apr 14 09:31:05 PDT 2014


On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 02:53PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> 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."

Thanks, you're right. I didn't know that document yet. I have some
reading to do.

	Sören





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