Hi, Shawn Guo writes: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 03:30:27PM +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote: > > Reintroduce 'status = "disabled"' for the dcp node that was dropped by > > commit 519d8b1a "Added support for Freescale's DCP co-processor". > > For IP blocks that do not have pins to be routed on boards, it should be > fine to have it enabled in <soc>.dtsi. > That means that when a new driver is added, it will start wasting resources on all board using that SoC unless the board maintainers explicitly disable that driver in DTB. I would prefer things to be the other way: New drivers (no matter whether for chip-internal or external hardware) should require to be explicitly enabled for those platforms on which they are being used. Lothar Waßmann -- ___________________________________________________________ Ka-Ro electronics GmbH | Pascalstraße 22 | D - 52076 Aachen Phone: +49 2408 1402-0 | Fax: +49 2408 1402-10 Geschäftsführer: Matthias Kaussen Handelsregistereintrag: Amtsgericht Aachen, HRB 4996 www.karo-electronics.de | info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ___________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
