[PATCH v4] soc: fsl: qe: convert QE interrupt controller to platform_device

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 06/08/2021 à 06:39, Saravana Kannan a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 9:35 PM Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max at inbox.ru> wrote:
>>
>> 03.08.2021 20:51, Saravana Kannan wrote:
>>>> So lets convert this driver to simple platform_device with probe().
>>>> Also use platform_get_ and devm_ family function to get/allocate
>>>> resources and drop unused .compatible = "qeic".
>>> Yes, please!
>>
>> Should I totally drop { .type = "qeic"}, or keep?
> 
> Sorry for the confusion. My "Yes, please"!" was a show of support for
> switching this to a proper platform driver. Not a response to that
> specific question.
> 
> I didn't look at the code/DT close enough to know/care about the "type" part.
> 

As far as I understand, Leo told it needs to remain, based on his answer below:

"From the original code, this should be type = "qeic".  It is not
defined in current binding but probably needed for backward
compatibility."


Christophe