linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap

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Message-ID: <CACxGe6sCroK2ztbrZG6u=2Fp7b8kuGDxJ94TNdpLtLNkhyHQcA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:16:58 +0000
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Pantelis Antoniou <panto@...oniou-consulting.com>
Cc:	Joel A Fernandes <agnel.joel@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@...com>, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@...com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Koen Kooi <koen@...inion.thruhere.net>,
	Matt Porter <mporter@...com>, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>, Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Pantelis Antoniou
<panto@...oniou-consulting.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:06 AM, Joel A Fernandes wrote:
>> Sure, so if we add data type supplementary properties to the tree to
>> indicate the data type as "indirect phandle", then kernel could refer
>> to the index in the got-like table to fetch the actual phandle address
>> (1-level of indirection), instead of directly using the address in the
>> data field.
>>
>
> I'm fine with this.

But if the data about phandles is already in the tree, then the need
for a GOT simply goes away. The phandles can be fixed up directly and
it is so much better because it works with existing parsing code after
the merge is applied.

g.
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