From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pata-generic/of: Make probing via device tree non-powerpc-specific
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:40:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2615461.zA8fCfbHH2@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110917153732.GR3523@ponder.secretlab.ca>
On Saturday 17 September 2011 09:37:32 Grant Likely wrote:
> What driver is normally used for versatile express pata? This driver
> is kind of legacy in that it was created when there was a split
> between platform_device and of_platform_devices. But that split was a
> bad idea and the same driver should be used regardless of whether or
> not DT is enabled. pata_of_platform.c really should be removed.
It normally uses the plain pata_platform.c driver.
Note that the pata_of_platform driver is already just a shim on
top of the regular pata_platform driver. They could easily be combined,
but the current state is also ok, since there is very little code
duplication.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-17 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-16 14:38 [PATCH] pata-generic/of: Make probing via device tree non-powerpc-specific Dave Martin
2011-09-16 16:22 ` [PATCH v2] " Dave Martin
2011-09-16 21:34 ` Rob Herring
2011-09-19 10:10 ` Dave Martin
2011-09-20 19:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-09-17 15:37 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-17 18:40 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-09-17 21:30 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-16 21:43 ` [PATCH] " Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-17 18:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-19 10:05 ` Dave Martin
2011-09-19 10:23 ` Pawel Moll
2011-09-19 10:56 ` Dave Martin
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