On Wednesday 01 October 2014 17:04:41 Mika Westerberg wrote: > > > On the question what to put into the name and type fields, that is > > unrelated. The type is supposed to be for the 'device_type' property > > in DT, which we should never rely on in a driver that supports both > > APCI and DT. In Linux we only use that for "pci", "cpu" and "memory", > > all of which have their own way of getting probed in ACPI. > > The "name" is normally ignored in DT as well, except for backwards > > compatibility with old bindings, but I would argue that you should not > > just put "prp0001" in there. Either leave it empty like type, or use > > the name of the device as it appears in the ACPI tables, such as "DEV0" > > or "PWM". > > OK, I think it makes sense to leave them empty. I remember I tried that > at some point but it didn't work without N and T fields. Is there some > example what to put there in case of empty? > > Something like "of:N*T*Cgpio-leds" perhaps? Sorry, don't know. If I read the code right, the type field in DT ends up being "<NULL>" for any device that doesn't set the device_type property, but that seems a bit silly and probably isn't worth copying. Arnd -- 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
