[RFC PATCH] ipmi: convert OF driver to platform driver

[Grant Likely]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:34:50PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 24 February 2011, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 03:37:59PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> > > 
> > > of_bus is deprecated in favor of the plain platform bus. This patch
> > > merges the ipmi OF driver with the existing platform driver.
> > > 
> > > CONFIG_PPC_OF occurrances are removed or replaced with CONFIG_OF.
> > > 
> > > Compile tested with and without CONFIG_OF. Tested OF probe and
> > > default probe cases.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> > 
> > Wow.  That driver does some weird things with the driver model that
> > really should be cleaned up.  That said, this change looks correct.
> > I'll add it to my tree and see how it goes.
> 
> Please keep me in the look when you want to do further into cleaning
> this up. The OF code was initially done for the QS21 running SLOF, and
> predates the flattened device tree specs.

Will do.  I've got no plans to fiddle with this code beyond getting
rid of the of_platform_driver abstractions, but I'll keep my eye out
for changes that you should be cc'd on.

g.