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From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:54:59 +0100
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Από το iPhone μου

6 Νοε 2012, 12:16, ο/η Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> έγραψε:

> 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.
> 

Either way works. It is your call after all. 
I agree that your method is simpler. 
> g.

Regards

-- Pantelis--
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