* Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> [160908 12:18]: > > On 09/08/16 08:58, Tony Lindgren wrote: > >> Just to consider other ways of doing it, we could use the compatible > >> flag to tag devices that need to be just idled on probe, but that does > >> not seem like generic solution to me. > > > > Yuck. Again overloading a property to convey multiple pieces of > > information. > > I should have been more explicit in that statement. > > If the hardware device does not have "wires" routed to a connector or > bus then it is still the same device. Thus the compatible should be > the same. > > The difference is the way the device is used in the SOC or board. That is correct. The device is exactly the same. Regards, Tony -- 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
