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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:54:10 -0600
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
<plagnioj-sclMFOaUSTBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> One option that has been suggested (more than once) is to make the
>> adapter code an of_platform_driver which translates the device tree
>> data and then registers the appropriate platform_devices. =A0This neatly
>> solves the problem, but I don't like the overhead involved in
>> registering 2 struct devices with the kernel for every device node in
>> the device tree.
> but simplify the dev and maintaining is also an important goal.
>
> Have to duplicated ressource handling via ifdef in every drivers is also =
an
> overhead which need to be avoided

agreed.  I don't have a best of both worlds answer here.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.