From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752993AbcD1Lyg (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:54:36 -0400 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:54128 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752922AbcD1Lye (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:54:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:53:37 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Sagar Dharia , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, bp@suse.de, poeschel@lemonage.de, treding@nvidia.com, gong.chen@linux.intel.com, andreas.noever@gmail.com, alan@linux.intel.com, mathieu.poirier@linaro.org, daniel@ffwll.ch, jkosina@suse.cz, sharon.dvir1@mail.huji.ac.il, joe@perches.com, davem@davemloft.net, james.hogan@imgtec.com, michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com, daniel.thompson@linaro.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kheitke@audience.com, mlocke@codeaurora.org, agross@codeaurora.org, sheetal.tigadoli@gmail.com, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20160428115337.GN3217@sirena.org.uk> References: <1461801489-16254-1-git-send-email-sdharia@codeaurora.org> <1461801489-16254-2-git-send-email-sdharia@codeaurora.org> <2692115.H6acsZmTjn@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="idCnhAV0S4n5U/Zz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2692115.H6acsZmTjn@wuerfel> X-Cookie: Tomorrow, you can be anywhere. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a01:348:6:8808:fab::3 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --idCnhAV0S4n5U/Zz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:00:26PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 27 April 2016 17:58:04 Sagar Dharia wrote: > > +int slim_add_device(struct slim_controller *ctrl, struct slim_device *sbdev) > This looks like an artifact of ancient pre-DT times. I'd say kill it off before > someone starts using it. Not every architecture uses DT, and even on architectures with DT support it isn't always the only firmware. In this specific case it's questionable how many people are going to implement Slimbus at this point but in general insisting that we go DT only doesn't seem great. --idCnhAV0S4n5U/Zz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXIfm/AAoJECTWi3JdVIfQ2xwH/RU4fceV7llxqkWBdwp+VnsC xcmChWPwsYP3/vGi9pqCLp25b8CE3qF0AER/BguF1yDUGdbre1KuwG2flPezAjQf knOUPgJIyRd4HGX/AT3cbmAhNg4pkqgzaDgfcEpMx+/7DuPgj5zR2XJ8AZGeCnyG 1KE4xcGtbKKvV5cbaI8yi4BOEnv1vIvrBG9vl5Z0eQbvRT4P5zfyDZWyJaFWVd+z IxN0vdyAGojohkU2l6l4LW9FsAdRlTKvSeaN4l97/RYE4U0LkxL0x0qcJ3PDO6Dh mCOJo7Owe3mciJsZiX/LdzLnuDuLxy+PqPVYbn+BRHONZ0Z0cyS531JymzWRErw= =YeW9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --idCnhAV0S4n5U/Zz--