On Fri, 2014-07-25 at 15:23 +0100, Pawel Moll wrote: > The code selecting a device for the sdhci host has been > continuously tweaked (4b711cb13843f5082e82970dd1e8031383134a65 > "mmc: sdhci-pltfm: Add structure for host-specific data" and > a4d2177f00a5252d825236c5124bc1e9918bdb41 "mmc: sdhci-pltfm: dt > device does not pass parent to sdhci_alloc_host") while there > does not seem to be any reason to use platform device's parent > in the first place. > > The comment saying "Some PCI-based MFD need the parent here" > seem to refer to Timberdale FPGA driver (the only MFD driver > registering SDHCI cell, drivers/mfd/timberdale.c) but again, > the only situation when parent device matter is runtime PM, > which is not implemented for Timberdale. > > Cc: Chris Ball <chris@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> > --- > > This patch is a part of effort to remove references to platform_bus > and make it static. > > Chris, Anton, Ulf - could you please advise if the assumptions > above are correct or if I'm completely wrong? Do you know what > where the real reasons to use parent originally? The PCI comment > seems like a red herring to me... Can I take the silence as a suggestion that the change looks ok-ish for you? Paweł -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
