[PATCH 0/8] ARM: dts: renesas: Remove unit-addresses and regs from integrated caches

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Mon Mar 6 22:46:04 PST 2017


On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 05:40:35PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 	Hi Simon, Magnus,
> 
> This patch series removes the bogus unit-addresses and reg properties
> from the device nodes representing Cortex-A15/A7 cache controllers.
> 
> Note that the latter were added to remove warnings from dtc when using
> W=1:
> 
>     Warning (unit_address_vs_reg): Node /cache-controller at 0 has a unit name, but no reg property
> 
> In hindsight, adding the reg properties turned out to be the wrong fix.
> Indeed, the Cortex-A15/A7 cache controllers are integrated controllers,
> and thus the device nodes representing them should not have
> unit-addresses or reg properties.
> 
> This series does not have a runtime effect, as Linux doesn't rely much
> on the properties of the cache-controller nodes.
> 
> This series is the arm32 counterpart of "[PATCH 0/2] arm64: dts: renesas:
> Remove unit-addresses and regs from integrated caches", which you've just
> applied.
> 
> Thanks for applying!

Thanks, done.



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