From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
paulus@samba.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pasemi: electra IDE/pata_platform glue
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 18:01:50 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179043310.32247.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070513061954.GA16623@lixom.net>
> Great. That should fit perfectly with the glue I have now, it'll turn
> into the constructor instead.
>
> I honestly don't see what the benefit is of this recent obsession
> with creating of_platform devices for every new device that's not
> PCI, especially when there's an already well-fitting driver in the
> traditional platform model. It's not like the code to link the two is
> large and complex.
I agree.
> Also, in this particular case, the bindings are not standardized, and
> there's a good chance that whatever new platform uses a similar device
> will need to do something slightly different.
Yup.
Ben.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pasemi: electra IDE/pata_platform glue
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 18:01:50 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179043310.32247.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070513061954.GA16623@lixom.net>
> Great. That should fit perfectly with the glue I have now, it'll turn
> into the constructor instead.
>
> I honestly don't see what the benefit is of this recent obsession
> with creating of_platform devices for every new device that's not
> PCI, especially when there's an already well-fitting driver in the
> traditional platform model. It's not like the code to link the two is
> large and complex.
I agree.
> Also, in this particular case, the bindings are not standardized, and
> there's a good chance that whatever new platform uses a similar device
> will need to do something slightly different.
Yup.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-13 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-12 14:50 [PATCH] pasemi: electra IDE/pata_platform glue Olof Johansson
2007-05-12 23:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-12 23:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-12 23:58 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-12 23:58 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-13 0:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-13 0:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-13 2:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-13 2:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-13 6:19 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-13 6:19 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-13 8:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-05-13 8:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-13 11:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-13 11:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-13 13:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-13 13:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-13 21:18 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-13 21:18 ` Olof Johansson
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