Kumar Gala wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Dave Jiang wrote: > >> Creating a platform device for the PCI error registers in order for >> the >> mpc85xx EDAC driver to pick up proper resources. This is to prevent >> the >> EDAC driver from monopolizing the of_device and thus preventing >> future PCI >> code from using the PCI of_device(s). >> >> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'd rather we didn't add new platform devices, but do this via > of_platform in the driver itself.
Kumar, Here's the thread of discussion between Arnd Bergmann and I why platform device is used. The original patch was of_device based.... http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-July/thread.html Does it still make sense or do I need to go back to of_device? > > Also, we need to 'rename' the compatible field for some of these > devices. > > - k > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Dave Jiang Software Engineer MontaVista Software, Inc. http://www.mvista.com ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
