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    SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform
    On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
    <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> wrote:
    >> One option that has been suggested (more than once) is to make the
    >> adapter code an of_platform_driver which translates the device tree
    >> data and then registers the appropriate platform_devices.  This neatly
    >> solves the problem, but I don't like the overhead involved in
    >> registering 2 struct devices with the kernel for every device node in
    >> the device tree.
    > but simplify the dev and maintaining is also an important goal.
    >
    > Have to duplicated ressource handling via ifdef in every drivers is also an
    > overhead which need to be avoided

    agreed. I don't have a best of both worlds answer here.

    g.

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