* Sebastian Reichel <s...@ring0.de> [150316 11:26]:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 08:29:39AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> [150315 05:10]:
> > > On Sunday 15 March 2015 10:50:42 Eliad Peller wrote:
> > > > yeah, i missed it :/
> > > > 
> > > > looks like there's no platform that defines platform data for it.
> > > > i'll replace the dev_get_platdata() with a function that only parses
> > > > the clock-frequency properties (the irq is taken in this case from the
> > > > spi_device).
> > > > (or maybe i should just drop it, as no one actually uses it?)
> > > 
> > > I don't think we should drop the driver, but dropping the platform_data
> > > support sounds reasonable. New users of this driver should all be using
> > > DT, and if there is a good reason to use platform_data, it's easily
> > > put back.
> > 
> > Well we have n8x0 and n900 using the spi driver. For those, n8x0 boot
> > all in dts mode, but n900 still also boots in legacy mode. It seems the
> > board-rx51-peripherals.c only passes the power_gpio though, so that
> > should be easy to keep around.
> > 
> > We should keep things still working for n900 in legacy mode until the
> > pending regressions with device tree based booting have been cleared
> > for at least one merge cycle. I believe the last pending issues is the
> > support for ATAG_REVISION in device tree mode as posted by Pali.
> 
> mh by migrating to newer gpiod interface platform data is no longer
> needed (instead the boardfile would need a gpiod_lookup_table). That
> way all of the dirty code is in the board file and will be removed
> once the time comes. See for example rx51_fmtx_gpios_table.
> 
> Note: This is independent of wl12xx changes, since N900 uses wl1251.

Oh sorry yes sounds like that's different platform data then. In that
case I see no reasons to drop the platform data for wl12xx.

Regards,

Tony
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