Hi Greg, On Jan 18, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:05:14AM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >> It might make sense for the of_device_* functions that are duplicating >> platform_device_* functions to be removed, and their functionality to >> be subsumed by platform_device_*, possibly by calling some helper functions >> in drivers/of/ when of_node is not NULL. The of_device_* functions can be >> replaced by a direct call to platform_device_* via a define (until all of >> the callers get converted). > > That sounds reasonable. > >> The problem with doing anything like this would be that a whole bunch of >> devices/arches depend on DT, and if anything breaks there will be a lot of >> angry people with pitchforks after the culprit. > > That's nothing new, we are totally used to that happening :) > I'm fearful of the angry mob with torches and pitchforks after me, if something gets broken :) >> So without the full force of a core maintainer behind such a move, people >> are reluctant to do so. > > Send patches if you want to do this, no need for the maintainer to do it > (hint, I will not as I don't even have a system that this type of code > runs on.) > OK, maybe next week, when I think of this a little bit more. > thanks, > > greg k-h Regards -- Pantelis-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
