Re: [PATCH] of/platform: Implement support for dev_pm_ops

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 02:44 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> I agree that there is some room for improvements in general (e.g.
> merging platform and of_platform devices/drivers), but it's not as
> easy as you would like to think. Let's make it in a separate step
> that don't stop real features from being implemented (e.g.
> hibernate).
> 
> For the six functions that we can reuse I can prepare a cleanup
> patch that we can merge via -mm, or it can just sit and collect
> needed acks and can be merged via any tree. But please, no
> cross-tree dependencies for the cruicial features.

I agree. I'll take the patch for now.

In the long run, I'm all for killing of_platform if we can find
a "proper" way to replace it with platform.

IE. With dev_archdata, any device carries the of device node, so
of_platform doesn't really buy us much anymore.

We could even "default" by populating platform device resources
with standard-parsing of "reg" properties etc...

So for devices who don't actually need anything more, we may get
away re-using platform devices as-is, all we would need is some
kind of conversion table or such to map OF match to platform dev names,
or maybe a secondary match table in the drivers themselves.

Anyway, that's an old discussion, something we still need to sort out...

Ben.