Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Thu, 28 May 2009 07:38:42 -0600 | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform |
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > Nowadays, any struct device can be linked to an OF device node thanks to > the archdata extension that we added to the generic struct device. One > of the idea we have in mind is to create a simple mechanism that > "intanciate" devices based on probing them in the tree, regardless of > the actual bus and linux device "type" (platform, PCI, i2c, ...).
Which is actually exactly what happens now for i2c, spi and (in .31) mdio. of_platform is the exception. a really big elephant of an exception, but an excpection never the less.
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