On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 10:07 +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote: > On 8 August 2014 18:36, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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? > > Sorry for the delay. I suppose this make sense, but I really don't > know for sure. > > I guess we need some testing in linux-next, to get some confidence. Would you take it into -next then? Unless I'm completely wrong there should be no impact on any in-tree driver... Cheers! Pawel -- 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
