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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
	i2c@lm-sensors.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Convert PowerPC MPC i2c to of_platform_driver from platform_driver
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:01:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071220060119.GA8456@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071220051618.GB29058@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:16:18PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:41:44PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > Convert MPC i2c driver from being a platform_driver to an open
> > firmware version. Error returns were improved. Routine names were
> > changed from fsl_ to mpc_ to make them match the file name.
> 
> In discussions BenH and I have had, we've actually concluded that
> moving this from platform drivers to of_platform drives is not
> actually a good idea.
> 
> In fact we're planning to move away from of_platform devices and
> drivers and instead develop a framework for instantiating platform
> devices or i2c devices or whatever devices from the device tree nodes.

There's been talk about that for a long time. Whenever that framework
is done, all the other drivers that have been converted (or written)
must/can be converted back as well.

Meanwhile, this should go in so those of us who can make use of the
other improvements the series brings can make use of them.


Thanks,

Olof

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-20  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-20  4:41 [PATCH 0/5] Version 17, series to add device tree naming to i2c Jon Smirl
2007-12-20  4:41 ` [PATCH 1/5] Implement module aliasing for i2c to translate from device tree names Jon Smirl
2008-01-11 19:20   ` [i2c] " Jean Delvare
2008-01-12  8:46     ` Jean Delvare
2008-01-12 16:26       ` Jon Smirl
2008-01-13 14:41         ` Jean Delvare
2008-01-13 16:24           ` Jon Smirl
2008-01-13 17:40             ` Jean Delvare
2008-01-13 18:01               ` Jon Smirl
2008-01-13 18:45                 ` Jean Delvare
2008-01-13 18:50                   ` Jon Smirl
2008-01-13 19:05                     ` Jean Delvare
2007-12-20  4:41 ` [PATCH 2/5] Modify several rtc drivers to use the alias names list property of i2c Jon Smirl
2007-12-20  4:41 ` [PATCH 3/5] Clean up error returns Jon Smirl
2007-12-20  4:41 ` [PATCH 4/5] Convert PowerPC MPC i2c to of_platform_driver from platform_driver Jon Smirl
2007-12-20  5:16   ` David Gibson
2007-12-20  6:01     ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-12-20  6:04     ` Stefan Roese
2007-12-20 15:56     ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-20  4:41 ` [PATCH 5/5] Convert pfc8563 i2c driver from old style to new style Jon Smirl
2007-12-20 23:59 ` [PATCH 0/5] Version 17, series to add device tree naming to i2c Jon Smirl
2007-12-27 16:47 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-28 12:14   ` Jean Delvare
2008-01-11  8:56 ` [i2c] " Jean Delvare
2008-01-11 15:52   ` Jon Smirl
2008-01-11 16:05     ` Jochen Friedrich
2008-01-11 19:15     ` Jean Delvare
2008-01-11 20:16       ` Jon Smirl
2008-01-12  9:08         ` Jean Delvare
2008-01-12 16:00           ` Jon Smirl
2008-01-13 15:09             ` Jean Delvare

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