Mark Brown wrote: >> The only problem with this is that the OF probing code in the kernel binds >> drivers to device tree nodes. So when a driver claims a node, no other >> driver >> will be probed with it. > >> So we can't have generic nodes that classify the motherboard and just let >> everyone get probed on it. > > My suggestion is that you change this for the root node.
That's an interesting idea. > It's already > got the information required in there, it's just there's no way to use > it to load modules at the minute. Correct. > You could presumably read the > information out of the device tree using existing APIs to check you're > running on the right board once code is loaded? Yes. The driver <-> node binding is only for probing. Any driver can scan the entire tree at any time. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
