Re: [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2

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On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Pantelis Antoniou
<panto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:06 AM, Joel A Fernandes wrote:
>> Sure, so if we add data type supplementary properties to the tree to
>> indicate the data type as "indirect phandle", then kernel could refer
>> to the index in the got-like table to fetch the actual phandle address
>> (1-level of indirection), instead of directly using the address in the
>> data field.
>>
>
> I'm fine with this.

But if the data about phandles is already in the tree, then the need
for a GOT simply goes away. The phandles can be fixed up directly and
it is so much better because it works with existing parsing code after
the merge is applied.

g.
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