On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 05:29:18PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > This is a follow to my series[1] the aim of which was to introduce device tree > support for early platform devices. > > It was received rather negatively. Aside from using device tree to pass > implementation specific details to the system, two important concerns were > raised: no probe deferral support and the fact that currently the early devices > never get converted to actual platform drivers. This series is a > proof-of-concept that's trying to address those issues. > > The only user of the current version of early platform drivers is the SuperH > architecture. If this series eventually gets merged, we could simply replace > the other solution. Looking at a quick output of: grep -r -A10 early_devices[[] arch/sh/kernel/ it looks like all of the existing early platform devices are serial ports, clocks, and clocksources. The switch to device tree should pick them all up from CLK_OF_DECLARE, TIMER_OF_DECLARE, and EARLYCON_DECLARE. Until that's complete, the existing code works as-is. I don't see what problem you're trying to solve. FYI I'm (sometimes-somewhat-absent) arch/sh co-maintainer. Rich -- 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
