Hi Rich,
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Rich Felker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 09:25:54AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:43 AM, Simon Horman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Make use of ARCH_RENESAS in place of ARCH_SHMOBILE.
>> >
>> > This is part of an ongoing process to migrate from ARCH_SHMOBILE to
>> > ARCH_RENESAS the motivation for which being that RENESAS seems to be a more
>> > appropriate name than SHMOBILE for the majority of Renesas ARM based SoCs.
>> >
>> > ARCH_RENESAS should cover all cases where both CONFIG_OF and
>> > ARCH_SHMOBILE are enabled.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
>>
>> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
>>
>> If you intend to drop ARCH_SHMOBILE from arch/arm/mach-shmobile/Kconfig
>> before
>> dropping the whole "if (...) { ... }" block below" (cfr. "drivers: sh: Stop
>> using the legacy clock domain on ARM",
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-renesas-soc/msg00869.html).
>>
>> Note that the SH-people may resurrect (a variant of) the block when they
>> start
>> migrating to DT and CCF.
>
> I can't say for sure at this point, but I think instead of searching
> for a node by compatible I would want to represent the relationship
> between the nodes semantically in the device tree. We can address that
> when we get there, though. If we're stuck with device-provided device
> trees that don't fully represent the relationships we might have to
> keep kludges for searching.
Great. That's indeed the best approach to follow.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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