On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, that is not the plan. The platform data is well-established > for deeply embedded systems (blackfin, arm-nommu, mips32, ...) where you > never want to build a kernel for multiple boards anyway. We also > have ways to generate platform_data from the device tree properties > to allow the same driver to be used by systems with or without > full device trees, and we have the fragments I mentioned that work > in the opposite way. Not actually true. We have drivers that can use both platform_data and device tree data, and for platform devices the resource table is automatically populated with irqs and register ranges, but platform_data is driver specific which prevents any automatic translation. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
