Re: [PATCH 1/6] OMAPDSS: DISPC: Remove cpu_is_xxxx checks

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> [120807 03:57]:
> On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 13:27 +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> > > Yes, they can be overridden, but I think it's still quite difficult to
> > > manage. DSS is modeled with multiple blocks, also in DT data. So you'd
> > > need to override multiple entries.
> > > 
> > > And it'd also require a new dts file for each version of your board with
> > > different ES version.
> > > 
> > > Also, I don't really see why this information would need to be present
> > > in the DT data (especially as it's not simple). It's all trivially found
> > > out in the code, by using cpu_is & soc_is.
> > 
> > Fair enough. I just think we should remove all cpu_is_* and soc_is_*
> > from drivers.
> 
> I agree, that's part of the idea here. Instead of having cpu_is checks
> all around, we'll have them in only certain centralized places. Then
> it's easier to implement a way to move them totally out of the driver,
> when we come up with a good idea how to accomplish that.

Yes limiting them to driver init and setting some driver specific flags
based on that is a good start. But eventually no drivers should have
those checks.

Regards,

Tony