From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nate Case Subject: Re: [RFC] misc/at24: add experimental OF support for the generic eeprom driver Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:43:13 -0500 Message-ID: <1255095793.16018.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1255010672-21656-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> <20091008143301.GA6084@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <20091008151007.GA21328@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <20091008202723.GA8116@pengutronix.de> <20091009051409.GA2361@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20091009051409.GA2361@pengutronix.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linuxppc-dev-bounces+glppd-linuxppc64-dev=m.gmane.org@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+glppd-linuxppc64-dev=m.gmane.org@lists.ozlabs.org To: Wolfram Sang Cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 07:14 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > And while doing this and figuring the pro/cons of those methods, I > stumbled over this commit: > > gpio: pca953x: Get platform_data from OpenFirmware > (1965d30356c1c65660ba3330927671cfe81acdd5) Aside from any issues you have with the properties themselves, what's your take on this approach? Personally, I just got tired of waiting for someone else to solve the pdata/OF problem. So I submitted that commit as an attempt at something very simple and unobtrusive to the device driver itself. It seems pretty clean to me, but I'm curious to see if others have any better ideas. - Nate