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

Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-25T15:59:50Z

On Tuesday 25 February 2014 16:09:44 Simon Guinot wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:36:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 February 2014, Simon Guinot wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:44:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > 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?
>
> We are using the old fashion platform_device mechanism. The resources
> are defined in some board-setup files stored in the arch/x86/platform
> repository.

Then better be quick, before the x86 maintainers figure out what kind
of mess they are getting into, if they want to support lots of embedded
machines in the future. ;-)

Arnd