On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > On Saturday 21 November 2009, Grant Likely wrote: >> BTW, while looking at that file... Arnd, does the .type = "serial" >> stuff really need to be there? > > Well, serial is one of the few that actually has some preexisting > binding with a well defined device-type, so I guess we should use > it.
But device-type describes a OpenFirmware API, not a device register interface. Once we're in the kernel and talking to the hardware directly, device-type has no real meaning because we're not using the OpenFirmware interface to talk to serial devices in a generic manner. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
