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    SubjectRe: Re[8]: [PATCH v3] mfd: syscon: Add non-DT support
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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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