Hi Rafal,
On Friday 16 June 2017 11:41 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 16 June 2017 at 08:04, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thursday 11 May 2017 09:59 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>> On 05/11/2017 06:29 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>>> @@ -297,6 +371,28 @@ static struct platform_driver bcm_ns_usb3_driver = {
>>>> .of_match_table = bcm_ns_usb3_id_table,
>>>> },
>>>> };
>>>> -module_platform_driver(bcm_ns_usb3_driver);
>>>> +
>>>> +static int __init bcm_ns_usb3_module_init(void)
>>>> +{
>>>> + int err;
>>>> +
>>>> + err = mdio_driver_register(&bcm_ns_usb3_mdio_driver);
>>>> + if (err)
>>>> + return err;
>>>> +
>>>> + err = platform_driver_register(&bcm_ns_usb3_driver);
>>>> + if (err)
>>>> + mdio_driver_unregister(&bcm_ns_usb3_mdio_driver);
>>>> +
>>>> + return err;
>>>> +}
>>>> +module_init(bcm_ns_usb3_module_init);
>>>> +
>>>> +static void __exit bcm_ns_usb3_module_exit(void)
>>>> +{
>>>> + platform_driver_unregister(&bcm_ns_usb3_driver);
>>>> + mdio_driver_unregister(&bcm_ns_usb3_mdio_driver);
>>>> +}
>>>> +module_exit(bcm_ns_usb3_module_exit)
>>>
>>> Do we need to keep both platform device and mdio device registration
>>> here? Do you have a depreciation time line for when we can entirely
>>> switch to mdio device (assuming this is for backwards compatibility)?
>>
>> I too have the same question.
>
> My plan is to:
> 1) Get this patch accepted
> 2) Switch DTS files to use the new binding
> 3) Maybe wait for LTS release if we care that much
> 4) Drop old binding support
old dt's are generally not allowed to break. So I'm not sure if we shoud ever
drop old binding support. Rest sounds good.
Thanks
Kishon
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