Hi Srinivas, Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I noticed that ath6kl partially supports Device trees, via > check_device_tree() function in init.c. That's really old code. Sam Leffler wrote that back in 2011 and IIRC nobody has touched it since. > I have a use case for adding reset line and pinctrl properties to this > dt bindings, but soon realized that this function would not work for > multiple instances of the driver, as there is no direct > association/binding of dt node and driver instance. > > Just wondering if this is a know limitation and there will be no > possible multiple instances of this driver? > > is check_device_tree function obsolete? I'm not familiar with the device tree at all so I can't really comment much, except that I'm happy to take patches :) > should I care about multiple instances? Yes, I think you should. > Other than adding static code in the board file, are there any other > options to pass platform data like reset gpio lines and pinctrl > properties to the driver? Few years back we talked about adding function pointers to the board files for that, but there never were any patches. -- Kalle Valo _______________________________________________ ath6kl mailing list ath6kl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath6kl
