Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] platform: Remove most references to platform_bus device

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:49:01AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 06:07:18PM +0100, Pawel Moll wrote:
> >> A number of board files in arch/arm and arch/unicore32
> >> explicitly reference platform_bus device as a parent
> >> for new platform devices.
> >>
> >> This is unnecessary, as platform device API guarantees
> >> that devices with NULL parent are going to by adopted
> >> by the mentioned "root" device.
> >>
> >> This patch removes or replaces with NULL such references.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm21664.c      |  3 +--
> >>  arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm281xx.c      |  3 +--
> >>  arch/arm/mach-clps711x/board-edb7211.c  |  6 +++---
> >>  arch/arm/mach-clps711x/board-p720t.c    |  6 +++---
> >>  arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-mx27ads.c        |  2 +-
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c  | 14 +++++++-------
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-bockw.c    | 19 ++++++++----------
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-genmai.c   |  5 ++---
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-koelsch.c  | 26 ++++++++++++-------------
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-lager.c    | 34 ++++++++++++++-------------------
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-marzen.c   |  1 -
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r7s72100.c |  2 +-
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a73a4.c  |  8 ++++----
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7778.c  | 13 ++++++-------
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7779.c  |  6 +++---
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7790.c  | 10 +++++-----
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7791.c  |  8 ++++----
> >>  arch/unicore32/kernel/puv3-core.c       |  2 +-
> >>  arch/unicore32/kernel/puv3-nb0916.c     |  6 +++---
> >>  19 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
> >
> > Looks good, if there are no objections, I'll take this through my
> > driver-core tree, so that your follow-on patches that change things will
> > still apply.
> 
> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> 
> Just in case we end up having dependent patches and/or lots of
> conflicts, can you stick these on a short topic branch that we can
> also pull in?

Hm, I don't normally do "short topic branches", so I've just stuck it
into my driver-core-next branch of my driver-core.git tree on
kernel.org.  I doubt the "make platform_bus static" or "make it a
platform device" will happen soon, given my questions on the other patch
in this series.

thanks,

greg k-h