Re: "memory" binding issues

[Olof Johansson]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 15:48 -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> > A node that has a "reg" property should have the corresponding unit
>> > address.
>>
>> No, absolutely _NOT_ a requirement. Unit address is only required if
>> needed to disambiguate two properties with the same name.
>>
>> If there are no ambiguities, then leaving off the unit address is much
>> preferred.
>
> I disagree :-)

Well, good thing you've got your own arch to litter the device trees
with unit specifiers in then. :)

> Also this would be only true of our find_node_by_path was capable of
> handling it, which it isn't. Thus you end up with generic code looking
> for /memory and finding nothing ...

Yes, this should be fixed.


-Olof
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