[coreboot] [PATCH] [RFC] v3: CS5536 cleanup, and v3 design

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Jul 4 00:21:29 CEST 2008


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> OK, that one is indeed valid. However, I'd like to keep the number of
> dev_find_*_device calls as low as possible without compromising code
> readability.
> For example, if you want to establish a link between two devices,
> calling the function with device pointers for both devices would make
> the code readable and stuff would still work.
>   
Hmm... and we can describe those links between devices in the dts.. I 
think we tried that for HT once.

So we'd have a construct of "devices" and a construct of "links" which 
are connections between devices.

links would have enable, disable, reset(, probe?) as methods?


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