On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 02:22:50PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > 2) Driver binding mechanism: device tree nodes usually have a > "compatible" property which is a list of strings. The first string > describes exactly what the device is (ie. "atmel,24c08") and an > optional list of other devices which it is register interface > backwards compatible with.
This is a good example. The "exact" description above doesn't say anything about some of the details the driver needs to know. Here is the at24 driver: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.29/include/linux/i2c/at24.h#L18 Where do we get the page size & flags from? rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
