From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: <R.Patil@mei-india.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Adding 'of_platform' bus support to the platform driver
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:53:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1356026021.21086.4@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFC91E62B9.4D486BD1-ON65257ADA.002E22B1-65257ADA.002E22B7@LocalDomain> (from R.Patil@mei-india.com on Thu Dec 20 02:23:55 2012)
On 12/20/2012 02:23:55 AM, R.Patil@mei-india.com wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> We are working on one of the platform drivers for our board (based on =20
> MPC8313ERDB). Previously, this driver was supporting platform bus but =20
> now we want to change it to support 'of_platform' bus. While =20
> supporting platform bus, the platform device structure is initialised =20
> in board setup file, and platform device is registered using =20
> 'platform_device_register_simple' call.
>=20
> Now if we want to support 'of_platform' bus, the information related =20
> to the the device will be extracted from device tree in the platform =20
> driver itself and we would not be required to call =20
> 'platform_device_register_simple' to register the platform device. Is =20
> this understanding correct?
What kernel version are you using? The of_platform bus doesn't exist =20
anymore. The current way is to use a normal platform driver, and =20
supply an "of_match_table" in the driver struct.
-Scott=
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2012-12-20 8:23 Adding 'of_platform' bus support to the platform driver R.Patil
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