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On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:21:14 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 04:28 +0300, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> > Added 8xx SoC peripherials: fec for Ethernet and smc for UARTs.
> > Ordinary routines to extract values from the device tree and insert respective
> > platform devices
> 
> Note that imho, that's at best a temporary thing. It would be much
> better to have these drivers register as of_platform_driver's and have
> the platform code publish of_platform_device's for all SoC nodes.
> 
The platform device way will persist until we haven't care about arch/ppc stuff anymore. 
As for now, I'm trying to keep both powerpc and ppc approaches sane.

Hence it is temporary, but it is the way of merge. of_platform_device rework is not a big deal - we'll do
it later.


-- 
Sincerely, 
Vitaly