Re: [resend PATCH] driver core: property: support for generic property

[Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 03:17:40PM +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> This extends the unified device property interface by adding
> "Generic Property" to it for cases where device tree or ACPI
> are not being used.
> 
> That makes the unified device property interface cover also
> most of the cases where information is extracted from custom
> platform_data in the drivers. So if before we had to check
> separately is there custom platform_data for a driver:
> 
> 	if (pdata)
> 		bar = pdata->bar;
> 	else
> 		device_property_read_u32(dev, "foo", &bar);
> 
> we can now drop that check and simply always use the unified
> device property interface.
> 
> That makes it possible to drop a lot of boiler plate from
> the drivers, plus quite a few header files under
> include/linux/ describing those driver specific platform
> data structures can be removed.

Gentle ping on this.


-- 
heikki