Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..

On Jul 12, 2012, at 6:01 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> New-bus is certainly not the only way to organize a device hierarchy =
and is=20
> not perfect, but in your case I suggest you tone down your language =
until you=20
> have enough information to develop an informed opinion.

It is also not the only way to represent relationships between objects, =
or to export services to the rest of the kernel.  =46rom earlier =
descriptions, it seems like some of these relationships aren't very =
newbus-y.  =46rom what I know about FDT, many of them are 'this device's =
interrupt pin is tied to GPIO 12 on controller 3' which isn't a =
parent/child relationship, but rather some kind of interrupt cookie =
you'll need to implement bus_setup_intr.

Warner

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