[GIT PULL] at91: platform data for atmel-mci (for 3.5)
From: Nicolas Ferre <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-13 16:49:05
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On 06/04/2012 05:48 PM, Nicolas Ferre :
On 05/31/2012 11:04 PM, Olof Johansson :quoted
Hi Nicolas, On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com <mailto:nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>> wrote: On 05/24/2012 05:12 PM, Nicolas Ferre : > Hi Arnd, hi Olof, Ping? (or maybe you will have a look at this after the merge window...) So, I looked at this branch yesterday but I wasn't entirely happy with the number of ifdefs it adds.Unfortunately, this is the usual shape of any devices/boards files on AT91. This amount will be reduced when we remove the old driver and when we move newer/popular devices to Device Tree...quoted
If the idea is to deprecate the old driver, wouldn't it make more sense to just cut everyone over instead of having both sets of setup in the kernel?Well, the old driver has existed since a very long time and I think that people are used to it on oldest platforms. This is why we put in place a overlapping period. This way we hope that the transition will be smoother. On the other hand, the old code will be removed in 3.7 so the overlapping period will not be so long. I hope that it will allow people to track bugs if some are remaining and switch to newer driver easily.
Olof, Arnd, So, do you have made up your mind about this pull request? Best regards, -- Nicolas Ferre