Re: [PATCH 0/5] Move Loongson1 MAC arch-code to the driver dir

[Keguang Zhang]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 11:24 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 11:11:30PM +0800, Keguang Zhang wrote:
> > From: Kelvin Zhang <kelvin.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > In order to convert Loongson1 MAC platform devices to the devicetree
> > nodes, Loongson1 MAC arch-code should be moved to the driver dir.
> >
> > In other words, this patchset is a preparation for converting
> > Loongson1 platform devices to devicetree.
>
> It is a long time since i converted an ARM system from platform data
> to DT. But what we tended to do was to allow both for a period of
> time.
>
> Does a system using platform data still work after this change? The
> first patch seems to delete a lot of code, not just move it around.
>
> Can you restructure this patchset to add the glue layer and DT binding
> in parallel with platform data. Then have a patchset which convert all
> in tree machines to using DT. And then a patchset, submitted in maybe
> 6 months time, to remove support for platform data.
>
Sure, I will keep the platform data from the next version.
Thanks!

>         Andrew



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Keguang Zhang