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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:16:58 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
Cc: Joel A Fernandes <agnel.joel@gmail.com>,
        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@ti.com>,
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        Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
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        Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>, Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>,
        linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
        Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Pantelis Antoniou
<panto@antoniou-consulting.com> 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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