Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:05:59 +0800 | Subject | Re: Re[8]: [PATCH v3] mfd: syscon: Add non-DT support | From | Dong Aisheng <> |
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On 20 February 2013 18:06, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 20 February 2013, Alexander Shiyan wrote: >> On 20 February 2013 13:41, Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru> wrote: >> > >> > One problem is that every user needs to add their syscon compatible device >> > support(platform_device_id) in syscon driver first before they can use it. >> > But it looks to me just like how other driver generally does. >> >> I agree, this is a more proper way, but in this case we should create a big table >> here with records for each device... >> >> > Arnd, >> > Do you think this is an issue? > > I would first like to get an answer to the question I asked in my first mail, > which is what the use case of non-DT support in this driver is. If this > is used only by a new platform that has to use DT anyway, or by an existing > platform that is easy enough to convert, we probably shouldn't do all this > at all. >
If the platform can convert to dt, then we do not have such issue. The question is do we allow the existing non-dt platforms to use it before converting?
Regards Dong Aisheng
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