Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Jun 1, 2008, at 9:03 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:49:45AM +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>>> This patch adds support for the TQM8548 modules from TQ-Components
>>> GmbH (http://www.tqc.de).
>>
>> [snip]
>>> index 0000000..d09250a
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/tqm8548.dts
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,370 @@
>>> +/*
>>> + * TQM8548 Device Tree Source
>>> + *
>>> + * Copyright 2006 Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
>>> + * Copyright 2008 Wolfgang Grandegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> + *
>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute  it and/or
>>> modify it
>>> + * under  the terms of  the GNU General  Public License as published
>>> by the
>>> + * Free Software Foundation;  either version 2 of the  License, or
>>> (at your
>>> + * option) any later version.
>>> + */
>>> +
>>> +/dts-v1/;
>>
>> [snip]
>>> +        [EMAIL PROTECTED] {
>>> +            #address-cells = <1>;
>>> +            #size-cells = <0>;
>>> +            cell-index = <0>;
>> [...]
>>> +        enet0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] {
>>> +            cell-index = <0>;
>> [...]
>>> +        serial0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] {
>>> +            cell-index = <0>;
>> [...]
>>> +    pci0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] {
>>> +        cell-index = <0>;
>>
>> You have a whole lot of 'cell-index' properties through both these
>> trees, and they all look wrong.  cell-index is a hack, which should be
>> avoided wherever practical - it should only be used when the index is
>> used to offset into some global register block, never simply to
>> differentiate (use reg for that) or name the devices (use aliases for
>> that).
> 
> this is why FSL device tree's have cell-index.  We have global control
> registers that need to know such things.

Should I remove them or not? OF is still a mystery for me :-(.

Wolfgang.


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