On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 7:19 AM Kishon Vijay Abraham I [off-list ref] wrote:

Export of_platform_device_create_pdata() to be used by drivers to
create child devices with the given platform data. This can be used
by platform specific driver to send platform data core driver. For e.g.,
this will be used by TI's J721E SoC specific PCIe driver to send
->start_link() ops and ->is_link_up() ops to Cadence core PCIe driver.

NAK

of_platform_device_create_pdata() is purely for legacy handling of
auxdata which is something I hope to get rid of someday. Or to put it
another way, auxdata use is a sign of platforms not fully converted to
DT.

Rob