From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
davem@davemloft.net, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/15] dt/powerpc: move of_bus_type infrastructure to ibmebus
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:35:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110228073529.GA7855@angua.secretlab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102241546.48790.arnd@arndb.de>
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:46:48PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 February 2011, Grant Likely wrote:
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c is the only remaining user of the
> > of_bus_type support code for initializing the bus and registering
> > drivers. All others have either been switched to the vanilla platform
> > bus or already have their own infrastructure.
> >
> > This patch moves the functionality that ibmebus is using out of
> > drivers/of/{platform,device}.c and into ibmebus.c where it is actually
> > used. Also renames the moved symbols from of_platform_* to
> > ibmebus_bus_* to reflect the actual usage.
> >
> > This patch is part of moving all of the of_platform_bus_type users
> > over to the platform_bus_type.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
>
> The ibmebus is essentially the platform bus of the IBM Power Systems (a.k.a.
> pSeries a.k.a. System p), I think it would make a lot of sense to convert
> the two drivers (ehca and ehea) on this bus into platform drivers as well.
>
> The original reason for this bus was to provide a different IOMMU for them
> than what is used on the PCI devices. This should now be possible in simpler
> ways.
Agreed. Anybody want to volunteer to craft a patch?
In the mean time, do you have any problem with this patch? (assuming
nobody is able to take on the task of converting those drivers
immediately).
g.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-28 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 4:33 [RFC PATCH 00/15] Remove last remains of of_platform_bus_type Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:33 ` [RFC PATCH 01/15] dt/powerpc: move of_bus_type infrastructure to ibmebus Grant Likely
2011-02-24 14:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-25 8:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-02-28 7:35 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2011-02-23 4:33 ` [RFC PATCH 02/15] dt: add a match table pointer to struct device Grant Likely
2011-02-23 18:29 ` Rob Herring
2011-02-23 18:44 ` Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:33 ` [RFC PATCH 03/15] dt/powerpc: Eliminate users of of_platform_{, un}register_driver Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:33 ` [RFC PATCH 04/15] dt/sparc: " Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 05/15] leds/leds-gpio: merge platform_driver with of_platform_driver Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 06/15] dt: xilinx_hwicap: merge platform and of_platform driver bindings Grant Likely
2011-02-25 18:25 ` [RFC PATCH 06/15] dt: xilinx_hwicap: merge platform and of_platformdriver bindings Stephen Neuendorffer
2011-02-28 7:41 ` Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 07/15] dt: uartlite: merge platform and of_platform driver bindings Grant Likely
2011-02-23 8:58 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-02-23 18:10 ` Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 08/15] dt/spi: Eliminate users of of_platform_{, un}register_driver Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 09/15] dt/sound: " Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 10/15] dt/net: " Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 11/15] dt/video: " Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 12/15] dt/usb: " Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 13/15] dt/serial: " Grant Likely
2011-02-24 16:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 14/15] dt: Eliminate of_platform_{,un}register_driver Grant Likely
2011-02-23 16:56 ` Rob Herring
2011-02-23 17:22 ` Grant Likely
2011-02-23 4:34 ` [RFC PATCH 15/15] dt: eliminate of_platform_driver shim code Grant Likely
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