On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 03:17:40PM +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote: > This extends the unified device property interface by adding > "Generic Property" to it for cases where device tree or ACPI > are not being used. > > That makes the unified device property interface cover also > most of the cases where information is extracted from custom > platform_data in the drivers. So if before we had to check > separately is there custom platform_data for a driver: > > if (pdata) > bar = pdata->bar; > else > device_property_read_u32(dev, "foo", &bar); > > we can now drop that check and simply always use the unified > device property interface. > > That makes it possible to drop a lot of boiler plate from > the drivers, plus quite a few header files under > include/linux/ describing those driver specific platform > data structures can be removed. Gentle ping on this. -- heikki -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
