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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2015-01-25 08:26:58 -0700
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2015-01-29 17:09:54 -0700
commit2f3b95dbc78ce96b0f9f471e688db66223988419 (patch)
treeebd398714c12cda56eac400fd7bb67b3dbde77d3 /doc/driver-model
parent040b69af7209d8fe0742352f4a72719df8dda9a5 (diff)
dm: core: Set device tree node for root device
The root device corresponds to the root device tree node, so set this up. Also add a few notes to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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@@ -363,6 +363,10 @@ can leave out platdata_auto_alloc_size. In this case you can use malloc
in your ofdata_to_platdata (or probe) method to allocate the required memory,
and you should free it in the remove method.
+The driver model tree is intended to mirror that of the device tree. The
+root driver is at device tree offset 0 (the root node, '/'), and its
+children are the children of the root node.
+
Declaring Uclasses
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