On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 07:40:28AM +0000, B48286@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > You are adding a property to specify a bus number. There is no reason > > why such a property should be specific to a single controller, every > > controller in every system has a bus number assigned to it so if we have > > a way to specify one controller via the device tree we should have a way > > to specify it for all. > The reason to specify a bus number to a single controller is to avoid > allocating one dynamically, so we know the bus number before booting up the > kernel. If there are several controllers, you should add this property to all > of them. But it is unnecessary to add this property, if you do not care about > the bus number, and it will be allocated dynamically. Please re-read what I wrote above, you're completely missing the point. The problem above is that you are adding this in driver specific code, even if this is a good idea there's nothing specific to this device about it so we shouldn't be doing it in a driver.
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