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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/37] OF: move device node pointer into struct device.
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:03:47 -0700

> Currently on OF enabled platforms, the device node pointer is stored in
> both device.archdata.of_node (.prom_node on sparc), and in of_device.node
> OF device tree support is being generalized to work on any platform, so
> instead of adding the of_node pointer to each platform's archdata
> individually, this patch series moves the of_node pointer into struct
> device proper and fixes up all users to reference the new location.
> 
> The last 3 patches in this series remove the old .archdata.of_node,
> .archdata.prom_node and of_device.node instances.
> 
> This series has been compile tested on powerpc, sparc and microblaze,
> (allmodconfig used on sparc and powerpc) and boot tested on an mpc5200
> powerpc.  All known (or at least all I could find) in-tree users of the
> old names have been removed.

Three or four of the patches don't apply because only your tree
has those "/* temporary */" comments, f.e. in arch/sparc/kernel/pci.c

I took care of this when applying to my tree.

> This series should also be fully bisectable.  After I collect acks, I
> would like to get this whole series into linux-next to see if I've
> missed any references, but I can probably hold off merging the last
> three patches when the 2.6.35 merge window opens to give out of tree
> users a bit more time to adapt.  In fact, I'd probably wait a few
> extra days after pushing out the bulk of this series before I push the
> last 3 patches into my linux-next branch to isolate the drivers that I
> missed while fixing.

I'd rather you just apply the sparc one immediately in 2.6.35 and
not wait at all.