From: rjw@sisk.pl (Rafael J. Wysocki)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/amba: probe via device tree
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:00:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105221200.46810.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110521234725.GB17672@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Sunday, May 22, 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:42:34AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Russell, it seems to me that the primary behaviour that amba_bus has
> > over platform_bus is the clock management, and secondarily
> > verification of the type of device by the device id. Am I correct, or
> > am I missing something?
>
> It matches by vendor/device ID just like PCI does, and does the bus
> clock management and power management in a really nice way, which I
> doubt platform devices will ever do.
Then we should use the AMBA bus where possible. Also, if there are
AMBA devices that currently pretend to be platform devices, they should be
converted back to AMBA.
> The way this discussion is going, I'm going to suggest that we also
> convert PCI stuff to being platform devices too. I don't see the
> point of PCI existing for all the same reasons being given in this
> thread.
I agree.
Thanks,
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-22 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-19 18:28 [PATCH v2 0/2] amba bus device tree probing Rob Herring
2011-05-19 18:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] dt: check for devices already created fron DT scan Rob Herring
2011-05-19 19:54 ` Grant Likely
2011-05-19 18:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] drivers/amba: probe via device tree Rob Herring
2011-05-19 20:01 ` Grant Likely
2011-05-19 23:30 ` Rob Herring
2011-05-19 23:39 ` Grant Likely
2011-05-20 13:24 ` Rob Herring
2011-05-20 14:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-20 15:17 ` Rob Herring
2011-05-20 16:08 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2011-05-21 17:42 ` Grant Likely
2011-05-21 23:47 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-22 10:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2011-05-22 15:46 ` Rob Herring
2011-05-23 15:23 ` Grant Likely
2011-05-22 10:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-25 9:03 ` Linus Walleij
2011-05-23 9:37 ` Kristoffer Glembo
2011-05-23 9:58 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-23 15:09 ` Grant Likely
2011-05-24 15:03 ` Rob Herring
2011-05-25 3:02 ` Shawn Guo
2011-05-25 9:07 ` Linus Walleij
2011-05-21 23:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-23 15:00 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2011-05-23 15:47 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-21 4:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-05-21 14:55 ` Rob Herring
2011-05-21 15:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-05-21 17:43 ` Grant Likely
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=201105221200.46810.rjw@sisk.pl \
--to=rjw@sisk.pl \
--cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).