linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] omap: add ocp2scp as a misc driver

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2012 09:22:18 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	"ABRAHAM, KISHON VIJAY" <kishon@...com>
Cc:	paul@...an.com, tony@...mide.com, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	b-cousson@...com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, balbi@...com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] omap: add ocp2scp as a misc driver

On Thursday 31 May 2012, ABRAHAM, KISHON VIJAY wrote:
> >
> > Just put the devices you actually want into the device tree instead and
> > have them automatically created.
> 
> But shouldn't device tree support and non-device tree support co-exist
> till the non-device tree is completely knocked out of the kernel? Even

Well, it's a new driver, so there is no regression in supporting it only
on DT-enabled boards. OMAP5 is DT-only anyway and OMAP4 only supports two
boards that should both be working with the generic DT code already.

> then shouldn't there be a separate driver to extract the child nodes
> of ocp2scp and create a device (using of_platform_populate)?
> As far as I've seen, the devices are automatically created (by virtue
> of of_platform_populate() in  mach-omap2/board-generic.c in omap case)
> only for the devices that is connected to the system bus. For other
> cases, the parent should be responsible for creating the child
> devices.

I would mark the multiplexed device compatible with "simple-bus", which
results in the child devices automatically getting added.

	Arnd
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