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On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:21:46PM +0530, Thomas Abraham wrote:

> Your point on maintaining support for both old and new formats is
> helpful. But I am not sure if maintaining support for both formats is
> the right thing to do. As most of the ARM platforms will switch to
> using dt, maybe converting all of them to new format would be better.
> I will try doing this and prepare a patch.

There's more architectures than ARM supported in Linux and only a
minority of them are using device tree at the minute.  Unless every
architecture switches over platform data based users will still need to
be supported.