From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755742Ab2LSQ6h (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:58:37 -0500 Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:47287 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755712Ab2LSQ6X (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:58:23 -0500 Message-ID: <50D1F22A.6090801@wwwdotorg.org> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:58:18 -0700 From: Stephen Warren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laxman Dewangan CC: Grant Likely , "alan@linux.intel.com" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "jslaby@suse.cz" , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: tegra: add serial driver References: <1355746249-15347-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <20121217171027.6AE573E0BDD@localhost> <50CF8F36.2030309@wwwdotorg.org> <20121219130151.F29CA3E0AD7@localhost> <50D1CC07.6070506@nvidia.com> In-Reply-To: <50D1CC07.6070506@nvidia.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/19/2012 07:15 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote: > On Wednesday 19 December 2012 06:31 PM, Grant Likely wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:31:34 -0700, Stephen >> Warren wrote: >>> On 12/17/2012 10:10 AM, Grant Likely wrote: >>>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:40:49 +0530, Laxman >>>> Dewangan wrote: >>> >>> Aren't we still supposed to support platform data so that it can >>> override what's in DT in order to fix up bad DTs? Or, has that >>> requirement been dropped. If it has, we can drop a bunch of code from a >>> variety of Tegra-specific drivers, I expect. >> Do you have an actual user for this? If not, then don't borrow trouble. >> Just drop it. Things like platform_data can always be added later only >> if it is needed. > > Currently all our board supports DT. we are not using any driver > instantiated by board files. > I will remove the platform data for current patch and if it is require > then will add later with reasoning. > > Hope this will be fine with Stephen also so that this basic patch can > be included into tree soon. I'm fine with it; it's just a change in policy that hadn't been communicated before.