On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 11:29:11AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
> 
> Some time ago I started a discussion about the need for a proper early device
> probing mechanism[1]. One that would be based on real platform drivers and
> support both platform data and device tree.
> 
> While we're far from reaching any consensus on the implementation, Arnd
> suggested that I start off by moving the SuperH-specific early platform
> drivers implementation to arch/sh[2].
> 
> This series is the first attempt at making way for a new, less hacky
> implementation.
> 
> The first patch moves all the early_platform code to arch/sh.
> 
> The second patch prefixes all early_platform symbols with 'sh_'.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/26/657
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/27/239
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> - certain drivers are compiled for arm/mach-shmobile too - we need to
>   add ifdefs for CONFIG_SUPERH around early_platform calls
> 
> v2 -> v3:
> - added a stub for is_early_platform_device() which always returns false
>   on non-SuperH architectures
> 
> v3 -> v4:
> - rebased on top of v5.4-rc1
> - removed patches that are already upstream from the series
> 
> Bartosz Golaszewski (2):
>   drivers: move the early platform device support to arch/sh
>   sh: add the sh_ prefix to early platform symbols

I like this, any objection from anyone if I take this in my driver-core
tree for 5.5-rc1?

thanks,

greg k-h

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