* Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxx> [150316 11:26]: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 08:29:39AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > * Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> [150315 05:10]: > > > On Sunday 15 March 2015 10:50:42 Eliad Peller wrote: > > > > yeah, i missed it :/ > > > > > > > > looks like there's no platform that defines platform data for it. > > > > i'll replace the dev_get_platdata() with a function that only parses > > > > the clock-frequency properties (the irq is taken in this case from the > > > > spi_device). > > > > (or maybe i should just drop it, as no one actually uses it?) > > > > > > I don't think we should drop the driver, but dropping the platform_data > > > support sounds reasonable. New users of this driver should all be using > > > DT, and if there is a good reason to use platform_data, it's easily > > > put back. > > > > Well we have n8x0 and n900 using the spi driver. For those, n8x0 boot > > all in dts mode, but n900 still also boots in legacy mode. It seems the > > board-rx51-peripherals.c only passes the power_gpio though, so that > > should be easy to keep around. > > > > We should keep things still working for n900 in legacy mode until the > > pending regressions with device tree based booting have been cleared > > for at least one merge cycle. I believe the last pending issues is the > > support for ATAG_REVISION in device tree mode as posted by Pali. > > mh by migrating to newer gpiod interface platform data is no longer > needed (instead the boardfile would need a gpiod_lookup_table). That > way all of the dirty code is in the board file and will be removed > once the time comes. See for example rx51_fmtx_gpios_table. > > Note: This is independent of wl12xx changes, since N900 uses wl1251. Oh sorry yes sounds like that's different platform data then. In that case I see no reasons to drop the platform data for wl12xx. Regards, Tony -- 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
