linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 21:27:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	david@...son.dropbear.id.au
Cc:	linux@....linux.org.uk, jonsmirl@...il.com,
	devicetree-discuss@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	timur@...escale.com, scottwood@...escale.com,
	yuan-bo.ye@...orola.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

From: David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:52:58 +1000

> The of_platform bus model is conceptually completely broken, but in
> practice only slightly broken for all common cases.

The fact that every single SBUS and EBUS driver for sparc is now an
of_platform driver, and the fact that as a further result joint
SBUS/PCI drivers are now almost completely unified, speaks volumes to
the fact that it is not broken.

Yes, you'll have some non-shared probing code, one to fetch the
resources from PCI/platform_device/whatever and one for of_device.

But, I say big deal.

The rest remains entirely unified, even the DMA calls are all the
same in unified SBUS/EBUS/PCI device drivers.  It just works.
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