Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jan 2012 18:13:15 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Eliminate need for platform data |
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On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:21:46PM +0530, Thomas Abraham wrote:
> Your point on maintaining support for both old and new formats is > helpful. But I am not sure if maintaining support for both formats is > the right thing to do. As most of the ARM platforms will switch to > using dt, maybe converting all of them to new format would be better. > I will try doing this and prepare a patch.
There's more architectures than ARM supported in Linux and only a minority of them are using device tree at the minute. Unless every architecture switches over platform data based users will still need to be supported.
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