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> Yeah, I've been pretty usnsure about this myself.  Using "soc" was
> initially a hack to make the legacy serial detection stuff work, but I
> think Arnd's of_platform serial stuff will deal with that better.
> 
> On the other hand, using separate device_type has no particular value,
> either.  I wonder if we should have a general device_type for any
> non-probeable, memory-mapped bus.

What about dumb-bus ? :-0

Ben.