Ohad Ben-Cohen [off-list ref] writes:

Hi Kevin,

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Kevin Hilman [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Benoit did just this in preparation for DT.

? ? ? http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=131672480111927&w=2

Will that meet your needs?

It's almost there, but not entirely.

Benoit's alloc/delete functions focus on the omap_device part, leaving
the handling of the platform device (allocation and pdata setting) to
omap_device_build_ss(), which at the same time registers the pdev.

I'd need to split omap_device_build_ss() into two: an alloc() part
which does everything but registering the pdev, and a register() part.
Users will first call alloc(), manually set archdata members, and then
call the register() part.

Something like this (compile-tested only, based on Benoit's
for_3.2/4_omap4_dt_early_devices branch):

[...]

That's the idea; please tell me how you'd like to see this go forward
(there are at least several personal-taste issues here, e.g., naming:
now we have two sets of alloc/delete functions which have different
semantics) 

The approach is OK with me, but I'm a bit torn about whether or not to
merge this since the need for this should go away when converting to DT.
Is anyone working on IOMMU DT description?

I guess if I do merge this, we can also clean this up significantly
after all devices are converted to DT.

and which branch would you like me to base this work off of
(not sure if Benoit's patches already went into your
for_3.2/omap_device branch) and I'll respin this patch properly.

Unless it has other dependencies on Benoit's further DT patches, you can
base this on my for_3.2/omap_device-2 branch which includes Benoit's
alloc changes.

Kevin