On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Anton Vorontsov
avoront...@ru.mvista.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 08:53:46AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
[...]
Please don't. It is such a small amount of code,
It's *always* a small amound of code, at a start. Then we get
floppy disk drivers and the tty
No, this goes beyond PPC/OF. The real issue is that it is no longer a
safe assumption that pdata will be a static data structure in platform
code. The number of possible data sources is going to get larger, not
smaller. OF is just one. UEFI is another. Translating that data
into pdata
Will check this tomorrow.
And while doing this and figuring the pro/cons of those methods, I stumbled
over this commit:
gpio: pca953x: Get platform_data from OpenFirmware
(1965d30356c1c65660ba3330927671cfe81acdd5)
It looks to me that it missed all people involved in