Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add legacy devices to mpc8641_hpcn.dts

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:36:36 +0200

On Sunday 08 July 2007, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>>> +                          8042@60 {
> >>>> +                                  device_type = "8042";
> >
> >> Drop the device_type.  A number as a name isn't
> >> all that great, either.
> >
> >   Yet it's kinda accepted years ago, see:
> >
> > http://playground.sun.com/1275/proposals/Closed/Accepted/381-it.txt
> 
> That's not a published recommendation or anything like that.
> 

But still, it's what got used in what appears to be all ISA based machines
with such a keyboard controller, both PowerPC and i386 ones.

Are you suggesting that we should declare all existing machines wrong and do
our own thing instead?

	Arnd <><