On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 07:58:12PM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:54:19AM -0500, Andreas Dannenberg wrote:

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The patch adds a way to setup and initialize the device through the use
of platform data with configuration options equivalent to when using
device firmware (DT or ACPI) for systems where this is not available.

Which board is this btw? Looks like most arm board code is going
away in the next few kernel releases, so I wonder if this patch
will just increase maintainence without any proper user.

There is no particular board I'm targeting this for however platform
data support has been tested with a board file that I created for one of
the TI devices (don't worry I won't try to upstream that one :)

From a silicon vendor POV I want to make sure to make it easy to use

these devices for the largest audience possible hence the added pdata
support as there are still archs out there that don't support DT/ACPI.

With the changes based on your suggestion to use the gpiod interface
also for pdata this patch has become almost trivial and so should be the
effort removing this support should it ever become necessary.

Regards,

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Andreas Dannenberg
Texas Instruments Inc