From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from platform devices Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:52:15 +0200 Message-ID: <201409161652.15333.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1409668935-10667-1-git-send-email-pankaj.dubey@samsung.com> <20140905101409.68b14cc3@bbrezillon> <000b01cfd1a4$f5ae0d20$e10a2760$@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.24]:59161 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753787AbaIPPvf (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:51:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <000b01cfd1a4$f5ae0d20$e10a2760$@samsung.com> Sender: linux-samsung-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org To: Pankaj Dubey Cc: lee.jones@linaro.org, kgene.kim@samsung.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, 'Alexander Shiyan' , naushad@samsung.com, 'Tomasz Figa' , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joshi@samsung.com, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, thomas.ab@samsung.com, tomasz.figa@gmail.com, vikas.sajjan@samsung.com, chow.kim@samsung.com, 'Michal Simek' , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, 'Mark Brown' , 'Boris BREZILLON' , PRASHANTH GODREHAL On Tuesday 16 September 2014, Pankaj Dubey wrote: > Hi Arnd, Lee Jones, > > On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:15:27 +0530 > > Pankaj Dubey wrote: > > Any update on this patch. As already it has been tested on two DT based > platforms. > > If you think that we can go ahead and break clps711x till it gets migrated > over DT, > then please ack this patch, or else if you have opinion to keep support for > non-DT > based drivers (clps711x) then I can post another patch keeping platform > driver support > for non-DT based platform. The rule is that we don't intentionally break things, so please post a patch that keeps the existing platform driver there. Ideally we get a DT-only clps711x for the merge window as well, and if that happens we can add another patch on top to remove that syscon-pdev support again but then we will have a bisectable kernel that works for every point inbetween. Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:52:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v2] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from platform devices In-Reply-To: <000b01cfd1a4$f5ae0d20$e10a2760$@samsung.com> References: <1409668935-10667-1-git-send-email-pankaj.dubey@samsung.com> <20140905101409.68b14cc3@bbrezillon> <000b01cfd1a4$f5ae0d20$e10a2760$@samsung.com> Message-ID: <201409161652.15333.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tuesday 16 September 2014, Pankaj Dubey wrote: > Hi Arnd, Lee Jones, > > On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:15:27 +0530 > > Pankaj Dubey wrote: > > Any update on this patch. As already it has been tested on two DT based > platforms. > > If you think that we can go ahead and break clps711x till it gets migrated > over DT, > then please ack this patch, or else if you have opinion to keep support for > non-DT > based drivers (clps711x) then I can post another patch keeping platform > driver support > for non-DT based platform. The rule is that we don't intentionally break things, so please post a patch that keeps the existing platform driver there. Ideally we get a DT-only clps711x for the merge window as well, and if that happens we can add another patch on top to remove that syscon-pdev support again but then we will have a bisectable kernel that works for every point inbetween. Arnd