On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:16:18PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:41:44PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:

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Convert MPC i2c driver from being a platform_driver to an open
firmware version. Error returns were improved. Routine names were
changed from fsl_ to mpc_ to make them match the file name.

In discussions BenH and I have had, we've actually concluded that
moving this from platform drivers to of_platform drives is not
actually a good idea.

In fact we're planning to move away from of_platform devices and
drivers and instead develop a framework for instantiating platform
devices or i2c devices or whatever devices from the device tree nodes.

There's been talk about that for a long time. Whenever that framework
is done, all the other drivers that have been converted (or written)
must/can be converted back as well.

Meanwhile, this should go in so those of us who can make use of the
other improvements the series brings can make use of them.


Thanks,

Olof