From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grant.likely@secretlab.ca (Grant Likely) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:38:42 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: CSR: Adding CSR SiRFprimaII board support In-Reply-To: References: <1308556402-10955-1-git-send-email-bs14@csr.com> <20110621162228.GI23234@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> wrote: > so the problem still need to be solved since device names coming from DT is not > that much "stable" as statically registered devices. the name from DT > isn't the same > as what board support code currently uses for statically registered > platform_devices. > > Grant has two threads for this: > 1. of: add clock providers to provide clk mapping in DT > http://www.mail-archive.com/devicetree-discuss at lists.ozlabs.org/msg03016.html > 2. " If Linux needs specific devices to have specific names, then it > can pass in a lookup table that matches DT nodes to device names, > which is considerably simpler and it leaves the platform setup code in > control over how devices get instantiated." > > both seems not ready yet? I'm planning to merge the auxdata patch (thread 2 above) into linux-next in a couple of days. When I push out that branch, it can be merged into the subarch tree before picking up the sirfprimall support patch (assuming it gets picked up for v3.1) g.