Re: [PATCH] platform: Fix platform device resource linking

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:05:14AM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> It might make sense for the of_device_* functions that are duplicating 
> platform_device_* functions to be removed, and their functionality to 
> be subsumed by platform_device_*, possibly by calling some helper functions
> in drivers/of/ when of_node is not NULL. The of_device_* functions can be 
> replaced by a direct call to platform_device_* via a define (until all of
> the callers get converted).

That sounds reasonable.

> The problem with doing anything like this would be that a whole bunch of
> devices/arches depend on DT, and if anything breaks there will be a lot of
> angry people with pitchforks after the culprit.

That's nothing new, we are totally used to that happening :)

> So without the full force of a core maintainer behind such a move, people
> are reluctant to do so.   

Send patches if you want to do this, no need for the maintainer to do it
(hint, I will not as I don't even have a system that this type of code
runs on.)

thanks,

greg k-h