Re: Re[8]: [PATCH v3] mfd: syscon: Add non-DT support

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Feb 20 2013 - 05:06:54 EST


On Wednesday 20 February 2013, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> On 20 February 2013 13:41, Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > One problem is that every user needs to add their syscon compatible device
> > support(platform_device_id) in syscon driver first before they can use it.
> > But it looks to me just like how other driver generally does.
>
> I agree, this is a more proper way, but in this case we should create a big table
> here with records for each device...
>
> > Arnd,
> > Do you think this is an issue?

I would first like to get an answer to the question I asked in my first mail,
which is what the use case of non-DT support in this driver is. If this
is used only by a new platform that has to use DT anyway, or by an existing
platform that is easy enough to convert, we probably shouldn't do all this
at all.

Arnd
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