Re: [PATCH 5/6] regulator: max77686: Remove support for board files

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On wto, 2014-11-04 at 20:46 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 09:49:45AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > The driver is used only on Exynos based boards with DTS support.
> > Simplify the driver and remove dead (unused) entries in platform_data
> > structure.
> 
> This mostly isn't actually removing platform data support as far as I
> can see?  It's removing some spurious error checks for missing platform
> data (which is good) and converting to use the core DT parsing (which is
> also good) but just leaving this:
> 
> > -       struct max77686_platform_data *pdata = dev_get_platdata(iodev->dev);
> 
> > -               config.init_data = pdata->regulators[i].initdata;
> 
> would keep platform data support there.  What problem is removing
> platform data support solving?

There isn't specific problem to solve. The purpose here is to remove
legacy and old code which really is not used. On Samsung boards with
mainline kernel the platform data is not used for a long, long time.

On our vendor kernels (for example these published on
opensource.samsung.com for Android and Tizen devices) this driver is not
used... because whole kernel is different and all drivers for Samsung
specific stuff (SoC, PMIC, sensors, LCD etc.) are developed by vendor.

In my humble opinion there aren't any users of this code. Removing it
helps in maintaining the driver.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


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