Re: [patch 4/4] MFD: Change mfd platform device usage to wrapper platform_device

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 03:52:08PM +0400, Dmitry wrote:
> 2008/7/9 ian <spyro@f2s.com>:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:15 +0400, Dmitry wrote:
> >> NAK.
> >> 0) It was discussed yesterday on the list and the decision was to go
> >> in a different way.
> >
> > It was?
> >
> > I prefer the wrapped way personally...
> 
> In any case IMO it's better to call platform_device_register() rather than
>  device_initialise()/platform_device_add().
> 
> Samuel? Russell?

WTF???  That's just completely wrong - assuming the internals of how the
platform device alloc API works...

What it's clear from my *brief* read of this thread is that the MFD
support doesn't seem to be ready for mainline yet - there's clearly issues
here that need further work.

Given that, and where we are (there's maybe two of *my* days left until
the merge window opens) I'm *very* tempted to drop the MFD support out
of my tree for this merge window - which basically means removing
5127/1, 5128/1 and 5129/1.