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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] at91: platform data for atmel-mci (for 3.5)
On 06/04/2012 05:48 PM, Nicolas Ferre :
> On 05/31/2012 11:04 PM, Olof Johansson :
>> Hi Nicolas,
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com
>> <mailto:nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/24/2012 05:12 PM, Nicolas Ferre :
>> > Hi Arnd, hi Olof,
>>
>> Ping?
>>
>> (or maybe you will have a look at this after the merge window...)
>>
>>
>> So, I looked at this branch yesterday but I wasn't entirely happy with
>> the number of ifdefs it adds.
>
> Unfortunately, this is the usual shape of any devices/boards files on
> AT91. This amount will be reduced when we remove the old driver and when
> we move newer/popular devices to Device Tree...
>
>> If the idea is to deprecate the old driver, wouldn't it make more sense
>> to just cut everyone over instead of having both sets of setup in the
>> kernel?
>
> Well, the old driver has existed since a very long time and I think that
> people are used to it on oldest platforms. This is why we put in place a
> overlapping period. This way we hope that the transition will be smoother.
> On the other hand, the old code will be removed in 3.7 so the
> overlapping period will not be so long.
> I hope that it will allow people to track bugs if some are remaining and
> switch to newer driver easily.

Olof, Arnd,

So, do you have made up your mind about this pull request?

Best regards,
--
Nicolas Ferre


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