linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Core device subsystem

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:13:23 +0100
From:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
CC:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Core device subsystem

On 08/07/11 14:08, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> So you're basically folding of_core_device_populate() and
> core_driver_init_class() into one call, and generating the
> of_device_ids on the fly. If you're going down that road,
> it would be even simpler to directly use of_device_ids
> instead of core_device_ids and skip the generation altogether.
> 
> That would also remove the static declaration of devices to be
> probed in the architecture support code...
> 
> Let me think of it and prototype that.

See the attached patch against branch dt_gic_twd from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git

It boots fine on my PB11MP.

What do you think?

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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