[PATCH 21/21] ARM: Kirkwood: Remove DT support

[arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)]

On Tuesday 25 February 2014, Simon Guinot wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:44:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 February 2014, Simon Guinot wrote:
> > > I am quite busy this days but as soon I get some free time I will take
> > > care of the DT conversion for the Lacie boards.
> > > 
> > > Basically, we need to fix some minor issues with the Thomas patches:
> > > 
> > > ARM: kirkwood: convert d2net_v2 to DT
> > > ARM: kirkwood: convert LaCie Net{2, 5}Big v2 platforms to DT
> > > 
> > > And also a DT binding must be added to the LED driver leds-netxbig.
> > 
> > I just took a brief look at the LED driver. I think it would be
> > reasonable to move almost all of the platform_data into the driver
> > itself and associate the two versions with distinct "compatible"
> > strings. That works in this particular case because while the driver
> > is generic enough to handle other cases, I also wouldn't expect
> > it to ever get used again on another platform.
> 
> Actually, this driver is also used by the Atom-based LaCie NASes.
> Mainline support for this platforms should be provided soon.

Do you use DT for those machines as well, or how do you get the
data into the driver there?

> > The main change to the driver would be to add support for a binding
> > that gets the seven gpio numbers out of the DT then.
> 
> Unfortunately not, we have to pass the whole thing through DT.

Ok :(

	Arnd