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

[Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> As Anton introduced archdata support, I wondered if this is a suitable way to
> handle the platform_data/devicetree_property-dualism (at least for some
> drivers).

I think in general, this is the right direction; but I'm not convinced
that the right pattern or form has been found yet.  What I don't like
on this particular patch is that it still hooks of-specific stuff into
an arbitrary point in the probe routine.

I'd like to see some pattern for retrieving or populating a
platform_data structure when one isn't already provided, and
regardless of the data source.

So, I guess I'm saying that I agree with the approach, but I think a
better pattern would be to factor out all of the platform_data
fetching code into a separate function and keep probe() focused on
initializing the device based on a pdata structure returned by it.  It
will take a bit of experimentation to come up with the best form for
the pdata fetching function, but it will be better contained if it is
all at a single place.

g.

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