Re: [PATCH][RFC] PCMCIA support for 8xx using platform devices

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:14:27AM +0400, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:49:41 +0200
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 22 April 2007, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> > > This utilizes PCMCIA on mpc885ads and mpc866ads from arch/powerpc.
> > > In the new approach, direct IMMR accesses from within drivers/ were
> > > totally eliminated, that requires hardware_enable,
> > > hardware_disable, voltage_set board-specific functions to be moved
> > > over to BSP code section (arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx in 885 case).
> > > There is just no way to have both arch/ppc and arch/powerpc
> > > approaches to work simultaneously because of that.  
> > 
> > Maybe I'm missing a key issue here, but what's the point of adding
> > more platform_devices for stuff that is already in the device tree?
> > Shouldn't this be made an of_platform_driver instead so you can
> > use the existing of_device directly?
> > 
> Was thinking of it but platform_device is better for migration purposes. Hence,
> assuming somebody would want to have pcmcia working not bothering to add whole arch/powerpc support,
> it can be accomplished quickly.

That's a horrible argument.  Please do it properly, and let arch/ppc die
as it should.  We shouldn't be adding anything to it anymore anyway.