From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Javier Martinez Canillas" <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Tony Lindgren" <tony@atomide.com>,
"Benoît Cousson" <b-cousson@ti.com>,
"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"Enric Balletbo i Serra" <eballetbo@gmail.com>,
"Ezequiel Garcia" <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>,
devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/7] platform: add a device node
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:33:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACxGe6vEjm0pe_gRNCLrGvf2_eJ-NGP+=Jwm-phm4RWBV_szUw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130210093708.GL17852@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:49:21AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> I knew this would be controversial and that's why I didn't mean it to be a patch
>> but a RFC :)
>>
>> The problem basically is that you have to associate the platform device with its
>> corresponding DT device node because it can be used in the driver probe function.
>
> When DT is being used, doesn't DT create the platform devices for you,
> with the device node already set correctly?
>
> Manually creating platform devices and adding DT nodes to it sounds like
> the wrong thing to be doing.
Right; I'd expect your platform device creation to go through the
of_platform_populate() route. What is your use-case?
g.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-18 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-09 20:44 [PATCH RFC 0/7] ARM: OMAP: add DT binding for gpmc-smsc911x Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 1/7] platform: add a device node Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-10 1:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-02-10 1:49 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-10 9:37 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-10 11:35 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-11 8:16 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-02-11 10:33 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-11 11:24 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-02-11 11:38 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-18 13:51 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-18 13:56 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-18 13:33 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 2/7] net: smsc911x: add pinctrl support Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-11 14:23 ` Linus Walleij
2013-02-11 14:29 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 3/7] ARM: OMAP: gpmc-smsc911x: add DT dev node init function Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-11 10:30 ` Mark Rutland
2013-02-11 10:40 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 4/7] ARM: OMAP: gpmc-smsc911x: pass a dev node to platform registration Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 5/7] ARM: OMAP: gpmc: add support for gpmc-smsc911x child nodes Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 6/7] ARM: dts: OMAP: Add an GPMC node for OMAP3 Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 7/7] ARM: dts: omap3-igep0020: Add SMSC911x LAN chip support Javier Martinez Canillas
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