Elimination of of_platform_bus_type remains in devicetree/next

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Tue Mar 1 10:47:45 EST 2011


Hi Grant,

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:59:37 -0700 Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
>
> I've just pushed a big change out to my devicetree/next branch which
> removes most users of of_platform_driver.  This gets rid of almost all
> the remaining users.  ibmebus and macintosh are the last holdouts, but
> they're pretty isolated and don't use the ugly shim that was in
> drivers/of/platform.c.

Yeah, I saw all those patches - looked pretty good.

> This change very likely will break a few things.  I've done my best to
> test it over many configurations, but I make no guarantees.  I've also
> performed a test merge with linux-next, and am checking it for
> breakage now.  You might want to move devicetree/next to the back of
> the queue for your merge tonight (or whatever else you like to do to
> mitigate damage).  :)
> 
> Let me know if it causes you any problems.

I will just use yesterday's tree if it breaks obviously.  Thanks for the
heads up.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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