linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] uio/pdrv

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Message-ID: <20110421120855.GC2135@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:08:55 +0200
From:	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
To:	John Williams <john.williams@...alogix.com>
Cc:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, grant.likely@...retlab.ca,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hjk@...sjkoch.de, arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] uio/pdrv_genirq: Add OF support

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:58:25AM +1000, John Williams wrote:

> As we discussed at ELC, putting a real vendor/device in there is also
> broken because all instances in the system wil bind to the generic
> uio, which is not necessarily what is desired.

IIRC I pointed you to mpc5200b-psc devices which also have multiple functions
and have seperate bindings for these functions. It fits the "hardware
description" character of a dt, because it says this PSC is a UART or an
SPI or whatever.

Regards,

   Wolfram

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