From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>,
linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH][RFC] PCMCIA support for 8xx using platform devices
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:49:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704222349.42368.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070422232658.5f427fd3@localhost.localdomain>
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?
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-22 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-22 19:26 Fw: [PATCH][RFC] PCMCIA support for 8xx using platform devices Vitaly Bordug
2007-04-22 21:49 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-04-23 6:14 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-04-23 7:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-23 19:55 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-04-23 21:12 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-25 9:27 ` [PATCH] ide-cs: recognize 2GB CompactFlash from Transcend Aeschbacher, Fabrice
2007-04-25 20:39 ` Peter Stuge
2007-04-26 0:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-26 9:21 ` Aeschbacher, Fabrice
2007-04-28 2:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-28 2:09 ` Peter Stuge
2007-04-26 9:49 ` [PATCH] pata_pcmcia: " Aeschbacher, Fabrice
2007-04-23 19:07 ` Fw: [PATCH][RFC] PCMCIA support for 8xx using platform devices Scott Wood
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