linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] drm/armada: Convert the probe function to the generic drm_of_component

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Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:23:46 +0100
From:	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
	Mark Yao <mark.yao@...k-chips.com>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	linux-rockchip <linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org>,
	LAKML <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] drm/armada: Convert the probe function to the
 generic drm_of_component_probe()

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:17:14PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:07:50PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > The armada DRM driver keeps some old platform data compatibility in the
> > probe function that makes moving to the generic drm_of_component_probe()
> > a bit more complicated that it should. Refactor the probe function to do
> > the platform_data processing after the generic probe (and only if that
> > fails). This way future cleanup can further remove support for it.
> 
> I'm mainly using the old code, even with DT based platforms, because it
> needs a block of reserved memory which I haven't got around to converting
> to DT stuff (each time I've looked into doing that, bits for dealing with
> reserved memory nodes were missing.)

Thanks for explaining this!

> 
> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>

And thanks for all the ACKs!

Best regards,
Liviu

> 
> -- 
> FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up
> according to speedtest.net.
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