linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: coreboot: Let OF core populate platform device

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Date:   Mon, 6 Aug 2018 18:22:06 +0100
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     swboyd@...omium.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, wnhuang@...omium.org,
        jwerner@...omium.org, briannorris@...omium.org,
        samuel@...lland.org, thierry.escande@...labora.com,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: coreboot: Let OF core populate platform device

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 6:13 PM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> Now that the /firmware/coreboot node in DT is populated by the core DT
> platform code with commit 3aa0582fdb82 ("of: platform: populate
> /firmware/ node from of_platform_default_populate_init()") we should and
> can remove the platform device creation here. Otherwise, the
> of_platform_device_create() call will fail, the coreboot of driver won't
> be registered, and this driver will never bind. At the same time, we can
> move this driver to use platform device APIs instead of DT specific ones
> and drop the of_node handling that was presumably placed there to hold a
> reference to the DT node created during module init.
>

Nice cleanup.

Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>

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Regards,
Sudeep