Re: [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] drm/armada: Convert the probe function to the generic drm_of_component_probe()

[Liviu Dudau]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:17:14PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:07:50PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > The armada DRM driver keeps some old platform data compatibility in the
> > probe function that makes moving to the generic drm_of_component_probe()
> > a bit more complicated that it should. Refactor the probe function to do
> > the platform_data processing after the generic probe (and only if that
> > fails). This way future cleanup can further remove support for it.
> 
> I'm mainly using the old code, even with DT based platforms, because it
> needs a block of reserved memory which I haven't got around to converting
> to DT stuff (each time I've looked into doing that, bits for dealing with
> reserved memory nodes were missing.)

Thanks for explaining this!

> 
> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

And thanks for all the ACKs!

Best regards,
Liviu

> 
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