From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760327AbZE1HlS (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 03:41:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752788AbZE1HlJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 03:41:09 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:51525 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750983AbZE1HlI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 03:41:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Scott Wood Cc: Russell King , devicetree-discuss , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Timur Tabi , Janboe Ye , linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk In-Reply-To: <4A1D8FBA.6040802@freescale.com> References: <1243408083.13460.14.camel@debian-nb> <20090527150527.GK6805@pengutronix.de> <87vdnm8sec.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <4A1D6901.2090508@freescale.com> <20090527175609.GB31861@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <4A1D8FBA.6040802@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 17:38:41 +1000 Message-Id: <1243496321.3171.141.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:08 -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > But to restate, having external glue to create platform devices from the > device tree is fine if that's what you want to do. We used to do that, > but it was a pain compared to keeping everything in one place. Your > experience may differ. This is a non-solved debate as to what is best. If an existing driver already has fairly complete platform_device support, it might be best to just create a glue that fills up the data structure from the DT... In any case, all the approaches are possible, the DT stuff doesn't corner you into a specific one. Cheers, Ben.