Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] lcd: platform-lcd: Eliminate need forplatform data

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Jan 02 2012 - 13:13:41 EST


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.
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