Re: [RFC] Device Tree Overlays Proposal (Was Re: capebus moving omap_devicesto mach-omap2)

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Tue Nov 13 2012 - 13:35:05 EST


On 11/13/2012 11:10 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> It seems to me that this capebus discussion is missing an important
> point. The name capebus suggests that it is a bus, so there should be a
> parent node to represent that bus. It should have a driver whose API
> implements all of the system-interface functions a cape needs.

It was discussed earlier that capebus isn't actually a bus. It's simply
a collection of a bunch of pins from the SoC hooked up to connectors.
I'd agree that it's mis-named.
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