[PATCH] Add USB support to mpc8349-mitx board port
Grant Likely
grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sun Jul 8 10:48:54 EST 2007
On 7/7/07, John Rigby <jcrigby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This same comment probably goes for the other arch_initcall functions
> > in fsl_soc.c which do exactly the same thing for other devices.
>
> This depends, some devices in fsl_soc.c may exist on non-powerpc SoCs
> that do not have OF. The USB core in 8349 for example also is in the
> arm based mx27 and mx31. These devices should remain platform devices
> and the glue in fls_soc.c will continure to be needed.
I disagree; the current method is "glue for the glue". There is no
reason why the driver cannot have two bindings; one for
platform_device and one for of_platform_device. It's about the same
amount of code, but uses less indirection for the device tree case.
Cheers,
g.
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