Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] firmware: coreboot: Let OF core populate platform device

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Thu Aug 09 2018 - 05:15:50 EST


On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 10:24:13AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Now that the /firmware/coreboot node in DT is populated by the core DT
> platform code with commit 3aa0582fdb82 ("of: platform: populate
> /firmware/ node from of_platform_default_populate_init()") we should and
> can remove the platform device creation here. Otherwise, the
> of_platform_device_create() call will fail, the coreboot of driver won't
> be registered, and this driver will never bind. At the same time, we
> should move this driver to use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE so that module
> auto-load works properly when the coreboot device is auto-populated and
> we should drop the of_node handling that was presumably placed here to
> hold a reference to the DT node created during module init that no
> longer happens.
>
> Cc: Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Julius Werner <jwerner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>

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Regards,
Sudeep