On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:09:43PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:00:15AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > The approach a lot of platforms have been taking is that it's OK to keep > > on maintaining existing boards using board files (especially for trivial > > things like adding new devices). > I think that's the approach being taken during the transition to device > tree. But it's definitely a desirable thing to remove those board > files with device tree support at some point, because not having non-DT > users will ease platform maintenance and new feature adoption a lot > easier, for example linear irqdomain. Moving to irqdomain without DT is really very easy, you just need to select a legacy mapping if a base is provided and otherwise all the code is identical - it just comes down to a field in platform data and an if statement.
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