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From: Wolfram Sang <w.s...@pengutronix.de>
Newsgroups: linux.kernel
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] uio/pdrv_genirq: Add OF support
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:10:01 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:58:25AM +1000, John Williams wrote:

> As we discussed at ELC, putting a real vendor/device in there is also
> broken because all instances in the system wil bind to the generic
> uio, which is not necessarily what is desired.

IIRC I pointed you to mpc5200b-psc devices which also have multiple functio=
ns
and have seperate bindings for these functions. It fits the "hardware
description" character of a dt, because it says this PSC is a UART or an
SPI or whatever.

Regards,

   Wolfram

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