Re: [PATCH v2 all 04/14] arc: use of_platform_default_populate() to populate default bus

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Mar 17 2016 - 09:28:50 EST


On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Vineet Gupta
<Vineet.Gupta1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 March 2016 01:03 PM, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>> Use helper of_platform_default_populate() in linux/of_platform
>> when possible, instead of calling of_platform_populate() with
>> the default match table.
>>
>> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thx Kefeng. I've added this to ARC for-curr for 4.6
>
>> ---
>> arch/arc/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
>> index cdc821d..401f51f 100644
>> --- a/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
>> +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
>> @@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ static int __init customize_machine(void)
>> * Traverses flattened DeviceTree - registering platform devices
>> * (if any) complete with their resources
>> */
>> - of_platform_populate(NULL, of_default_bus_match_table, NULL, NULL);
>> + of_platform_default_populate(NULL, NULL, NULL);
>
> Perhaps too late - but can't of_platform_default_populate just be a static inline
> calling of_platform_populate in the header rather than exporting yet another symbol !

The idea is to not export the variable of_default_bus_match_table and
export a function instead.

Rob