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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
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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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