On 12/06/2017 11:30 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 10:19:28AM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote: >> On 12/06/2017 06:45 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > >>> Then if you want to upstream the driver you'll have to add the platform >>> data support again. Like I say not all architectures have anything >>> other than board files. > >> Then they can try, but they will rightfully get nack'd and told to stop >> using board files and use DT/ACPI. Most upstream architectures don't use >> board files anymore anyway, so I doubt this will ever happen. > > No. To repeat, not all architectures use DT or ACPI. Expecting someone > to impelement DT or ACPI support for an entire architecture and try to > bring the ecosystem for that architecture along in order to add machine > support is obviously totally unreasonable. > That would be unreasonable I agree, but it's also completely hypothetical, as again, there are no in-tree users and most platforms are DT/ACPI, so the odds of anyone needing it are next to nothing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
