From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, rpurdie@rpsys.net,
linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, grant.likely@secretlab.ca,
rob.herring@calxeda.com, kgene.kim@samsung.com,
jg1.han@samsung.com, kyungmin.park@samsung.com, cbou@mail.ru,
kwangwoo.lee@gmail.com, augulis.darius@gmail.com,
ben-linux@fluff.org, patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Eliminate need for platform data
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 18:13:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120102181313.GA27875@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJuYYwQrfp6R=kSzXr6y0unDk9FtNxoy3Lt5QabdNMg9Qux=bg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:21:46PM +0530, Thomas Abraham wrote:
> Your point on maintaining support for both old and new formats is
> helpful. But I am not sure if maintaining support for both formats is
> the right thing to do. As most of the ARM platforms will switch to
> using dt, maybe converting all of them to new format would be better.
> I will try doing this and prepare a patch.
There's more architectures than ARM supported in Linux and only a
minority of them are using device tree at the minute. Unless every
architecture switches over platform data based users will still need to
be supported.
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From: broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Eliminate need for platform data
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 18:13:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120102181313.GA27875@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJuYYwQrfp6R=kSzXr6y0unDk9FtNxoy3Lt5QabdNMg9Qux=bg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:21:46PM +0530, Thomas Abraham wrote:
> Your point on maintaining support for both old and new formats is
> helpful. But I am not sure if maintaining support for both formats is
> the right thing to do. As most of the ARM platforms will switch to
> using dt, maybe converting all of them to new format would be better.
> I will try doing this and prepare a patch.
There's more architectures than ARM supported in Linux and only a
minority of them are using device tree at the minute. Unless every
architecture switches over platform data based users will still need to
be supported.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-02 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-02 5:54 [RFC][PATCH 0/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Add lcd panel and device tree support Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 5:54 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 5:54 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Eliminate need for platform data Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 5:54 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 5:54 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Add support for Hydis hv070wsa lcd panel Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 5:54 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 5:54 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4] ARM: Exynos: Remove platform data of platform-lcd driver Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 5:54 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 5:54 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Add device tree support Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 5:54 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 5:54 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 7:34 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-02 7:34 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-02 17:33 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 17:33 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 8:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Add support for Hydis hv070wsa lcd panel Kyungmin Park
2012-01-02 8:02 ` Kyungmin Park
2012-01-02 17:39 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 17:39 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 11:45 ` Mark Brown
2012-01-02 11:45 ` Mark Brown
2012-01-02 17:41 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 17:41 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 11:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Eliminate need for platform data Mark Brown
2012-01-02 11:59 ` Mark Brown
2012-01-02 17:51 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 17:51 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 18:13 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-01-02 18:13 ` Mark Brown
2012-01-03 8:26 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-03 8:26 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 6:48 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Add lcd panel and device tree support Olof Johansson
2012-01-02 6:48 ` Olof Johansson
2012-01-02 17:31 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 17:31 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-02 7:34 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-02 7:34 ` Grant Likely
2012-01-03 9:06 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-01-03 9:06 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-01-03 11:54 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-03 11:54 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-03 12:26 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-01-03 12:26 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-01-03 17:07 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-03 17:07 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-03 18:36 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-01-03 18:36 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-01-04 6:13 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-01-04 6:13 ` Thomas Abraham
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