Le 08/04/2015 14:00, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz a écrit : > On Wednesday, April 08, 2015 01:13:35 PM Alexandre Belloni wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 08/04/2015 at 13:04:19 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote : >>> On Monday, March 23, 2015 08:29:07 PM Alexandre Belloni wrote: >>>> Use syscon/regmap to configure the smc. This allows to avoid using >>>> at91sam9_smc.h and to compile the driver in a multiplatform configuration. >>>> >>>> The driver will still not probe until the proper DT bindings are added. That >>>> binding will include an atmel,smc property that is a phandle to the SMC the CF >>>> controller is connected to. >>> >>> If the driver is currently working fine in !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM >>> configuration then this patch will make it non-functional until >>> atmel,smc property is added to DT. To prevent this and preserve >>> bisectability the patchset should first add atmel,smc property >>> and then convert pata_at91 driver to use it. >>> >> >> Starting with 4.1, it will not be possible to use the driver anyway as >> all the platforms using it have switched to multiplatform. This patch >> makes it compilable again. > > Hmm. It seems that it was your commit which did the switch without > converting all at91 specific code to be multiplatform ready first: > > From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:57:18 +0100 > Subject: ARM: at91: switch to multiplatform > > Switch AT91 to multiplatform as all SoCs are properly handled. > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx> > > ? > >> Anyway, it seems that there is little interest in that driver and nobody >> I contacted has access to a board which can be used to test this. > > If there are no users then probably the driver can be removed but this > something that platform Maintainers should decide on. This is why there are loose constrains on this driver and that we decided to move on. So I think that modifying it and introducing the DT property afterwards can be done. Bye, -- Nicolas Ferre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
