From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: grant.likely@secretlab.ca
Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, monstr@monstr.eu,
microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au,
devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] of: kill struct of_device
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:07:06 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100616.140706.48510350.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100604211138.2762.35074.stgit@angua>
From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:11:38 -0600
> Now that the device tree node pointer has been moved out of struct
> of_device and into the common struct device, there isn't anything
> unique about of_device anymore. In fact, there isn't much need
> for a separate of_bus when all busses have access to OF style
> probing.
>
> arch/powerpc and arch/microblaze are moving away from using the of_bus
> and using the regular platform bus instead for mmio devices. This
> patch makes of_device the same as platform_device as a stepping stone
> in migrating of_platform_drivers over to the platform bus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-16 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20100604205930.2762.17131.stgit@angua>
2010-06-04 21:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] of: kill struct of_device Grant Likely
2010-06-16 21:07 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-06-04 21:13 ` [PATCH 0/2] Replace of_device with platform_device Grant Likely
2010-06-10 6:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-10 16:46 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-11 1:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-11 3:08 ` Grant Likely
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