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On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 16:12 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:59:06AM +0100, Arun Kumar K wrote:
> > 
> > +Required properties:
> > +
> > +- compatible           : must be "samsung,exynos5250-fimc"
> > +- clocks               : list of clock specifiers, corresponding to 
> > entries in
> > +                          the clock-names property
> 
> Minor nit: clocks are references by phandle + clock-specifier pairs, as
> the clock-specifier is separate from the phandle to the clock. 

Out of interest, and to learn the correct terminology for future
reference, I thought I'd ask:

Are the integer cells _the_ "specifier" which complements the
"phandle"?  Or does the "specifier" _consist_ of a phandle _and_
a (potentially empty) set of integer cells which all together
uniqely specify the resource?

For clocks and gpios I would tend towards the latter model, it
feels more intuitive to me.  I always felt interrupts to be the
exception in that their parent and the integer cells are spread
across individual properties.  Which in itself poses a
limitation, and I've seen patches trying to bring those two parts
of the specification together, such that members of a list of
interrupts can reference items from different parents.


virtually yours
Gerhard Sittig
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