netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: rfkill: gpio: remove unused and obsoleteplatform parameters

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Date:	Sat, 22 Feb 2014 23:32:04 +0100
From:	Marc Dietrich <marvin24@....de>
To:	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
	Rhyland Klein <rklein@...dia.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: rfkill: gpio: remove unused and obsoleteplatform parameters

On Friday 21 February 2014 16:23:49 Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:55:14PM +0100, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 20. Februar 2014, 14:51:34 schrieb Heikki Krogerus:
> > > After upgrading to descriptor based gpios, the gpio numbers
> > > are not used anymore. The power_clk_name and the platform
> > > specific setup and close hooks are not used by anybody, and
> > > we should not encourage use of such things, so removing them.
> > 
> > arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-paz00.c is still using platform data. Is there
> > some prerequisite patch I'm missing (3.14-rc3) or how can this file be
> > converted? We are waiting for DT support to arrive so we can finally
> > remove this file.
> True! It still set's the shutdown_gpio and reset_gpio members. I think
> I'll leave the header untouched and just clean net/rfkill/rfkill-gpio.c
> in this patch. We can remove the whole header after you guys have moved
> to DT.

Why? Just update the board file to remove those entries. I just checked that 
it's working fine without. So if you don't mind, add a patch to remove the 
entries as the first patch in your series.

Thanks

Marc
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