[PATCH 1/2] gpio/mxc: get rid of the uses of cpu_is_mx()

[Sascha Hauer]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 11:32:28AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:04:55PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 06:44:57PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > >> Read again. We have three different types of gpio irq controllers, they
> > >> are first seen in the imx1, imx21 and imx31. So all others can be made
> > >> compatible with these three. No need for imx-gpio, imx25-gpio and
> > >> imx27-gpio. The mxc_gpio_devtype would look like this:
> > >>
> > >> static struct platform_device_id mxc_gpio_devtype[] = {
> > >>       {
> > >>               .name = "imx1-gpio",
> > >>               .driver_data = IMX1_GPIO,
> > >>       }, {
> > >>               .name = "imx21-gpio",
> > >>               .driver_data = IMX21_GPIO,
> > >>       }, {
> > >>               .name = "imx31-gpio",
> > >>               .driver_data = IMX31_GPIO,
> > >>       }, {
> > >>       }
> > >> };
> > >>
> > > This is really what I want to do with dt match table.  But before we
> > > totally remove platform device probe and switch it over to dt, I'm
> > > unsure we want to do this.  It will require the following changes on
> > > platform device code registration right now.  I guess this is
> > > something you do not want, right?
> > 
> > What is the problem with the below changes?  I see no issue with
> > changing the static platform_device registrations in this way.
> > 
> We end up to register "imx21-gpio" in imx27_soc_init, and "imx31-gpio"
> in imx25/35/50/51/53 per-soc-init function.  The may confuse people
> who only look at platform device registration code.  This is something
> may concern Sascha.  Let's see what he thinks.

If we vote for doing this in the device tree then I see no problem doing
so in the platform registration code aswell.


Sascha

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