[PATCH 4/5] ibmebus: Move to of_device and of_platform_driver, match eHCA and eHEA drivers

Jeff Garzik jeff at garzik.org
Wed Oct 17 01:00:26 EST 2007


Joachim Fenkes wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007 10:21, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
>> Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote on 03.10.2007 20:05:44:
>>>  > > Replace struct ibmebus_dev and struct ibmebus_driver with struct 
> of_device
>>>  > > and struct of_platform_driver, respectively. Match the external 
> ibmebus
>>>  > > interface and drivers using it.
>>>  > >
>>>  > > Signed-off-by: Joachim Fenkes <fenkes at de.ibm.com>
>>>  >
>>>  > This is somewhat difficult as this patch touches files that are the
>>>  > responsibility of three different maintainers. �Is it possible to
>>>  > split the patch into three, one for each maintainer (possibly by
>>>  > keeping both old and new interfaces around for a little while)?
>>>  > 
>>>  > If not, then you need to get an Acked-by and an agreement that this
>>>  > change can go via the powerpc.git tree from Roland Dreier and Jeff
>>>  > Garzik.
>>>
>>> I don't see anything objectionable in the infiniband parts of the
>>> patch -- I don't have any way to test the changes but it all looks
>>> like a straightforward conversion to a new platform API.  So:
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd at cisco.com>
>>>
>>>  - R.
>> Looks good from eHEA driver perspective.
>>
>> Acked-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann at de.ibm.com>
> 
> Jeff, do you have any objections against this patch going into the kernel
> via Paul's powerpc.git tree? It touches only a few lines of ehea which are
> specific to the bus interface changes.
> 
> You can see the full patch here:
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=13750
> 
> If you have no objections, please ack the patch so Paul can include it.

Fine with me...

	Jeff






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