On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 16:28 +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > > * No board files > Where do you put code that needs to run very early (e.g. pinging the > watchdog)? Even on powerpc I keep board files :-) The main thing is: - The generic -> board linkage must not be hard (ie, no platform_restart, but a board_ops.restart() etc....) - An average board file is a few hundreds line long, that's it, mostly it hooks up to generically provided functions, tho it gets the choice of _which_ ones to hookup. - It can still quirk/fixup a thing or two if needed, I thinkt it's useful to keep that around, as long as such "quirks" remain small and few. At the end of the day, if dealing with one board special case gives you the choice between changing a ton of infrastructure/core to introduce a new abstraction to deal with -that- special case vs. having a one liner fixup in the platform code, the later is the most sensible option. The hard part of course is to have sensible maintainers to make sure this doesn't grow back to the old mess. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
