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Message-ID: <1435224937.16792.19.camel@tiscali.nl>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:35:37 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@...us.com>,
	jassisinghbrar@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
	pawel.moll@....com, mark.rutland@....com,
	ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk, galak@...eaurora.org,
	soren.brinkmann@...inx.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, mchehab@....samsung.com, arnd@...db.de,
	joe@...ches.com, jingoohan1@...il.com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 2/2] mailbox: Adding driver for Xilinx LogiCORE IP
 mailbox.

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 09:47 +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> It has to be platform_device somewhere for sure.
> In past we had folder in arch/microblaze/platform folder.
> Currently you can add this code to for example
> arch/microblaze/kernel/platform.c
> 
> But as I said I don't think it is really important. There will be a 
> lot
> of others drivers in the kernel which can be used as platform drivers
> but you are not able to find out platform_device for it.

Because, like probably happens with this driver, the OF infrastructure
makes sure the .probe and .remove functions will eventually called?

> The important part is that driver can work as is.

Sure.

But I was talking about the MODULE_ALIAS() macro. Trivial as it is,
since I still don't see where a "MODALIAS=platform:xilinx-mailbox"
uevent could come from I still don't see the point of this line. As I
asked in my first message: what breaks if this line is dropped?

> Also it is quite common that users create own BSP for their custom
> boards but they don't push it to mainline.

I can't recall what BSP means. Anyhow, why should we care about boards
not pushed into mainline?


Paul Bolle
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