Re: [RFC] misc/at24: add experimental OF support for the generic eeprom driver

Grant Likely
2009-10-09T16:13:58Z

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com> wrote:
> 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?

As I mentioned in an earlier email, I don't think quite the right form
has been found yet, but I like the direction things are moving.

> 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.

Yup, that's good. Between Anton's, Wolfram's and your work things are
going the right way.

g.

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