From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752919AbcD1QkF (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:40:05 -0400 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:55552 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752346AbcD1QkD (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:40:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 17:39:20 +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: <20160428163919.GP3217@sirena.org.uk> References: <1461801489-16254-1-git-send-email-sdharia@codeaurora.org> <7478716.z4vdp0mVTA@wuerfel> <20160428143801.GO3217@sirena.org.uk> <5047442.UXEhPc2Isi@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G2OYmj9cSczDaGGa" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5047442.UXEhPc2Isi@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 --G2OYmj9cSczDaGGa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 04:59:02PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > My comment this time was for the particular driver, but I'd > still also maintain that a new subsystem in general should not > start out by addressing the needs of traditional board files. I certainly wouldn't insist that people add it but equally pushing to remove it too strongly seems like the wrong thing, at least as a general comment rather than a specific one. > I don't think we have merge new platform support on any > architecture that would need this in the past years and > stuff like spi_board_info and i2c_board_info is only really > used on really old machines (but not going away any time soon > either). It's not just platforms that use these things though - there's things like the SolarFlare NICs where the firmware update mechanism essentially involves exposing a SPI flash as part of a PCI device and we just merged an ASoC driver for a video card which was reusing some existing IPs and chips. --G2OYmj9cSczDaGGa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXIjy2AAoJECTWi3JdVIfQpX0H/2/k7KR977h4R+3jQpwnFVa/ b7gzMID4BqGqc9kU4yW4K7Q7JSMnDn1XEi20Nz5W7qisuDYCRUUgql3pTBuNJswE deV0Srlclz/3G1aSIb7XvKlNb4eG819RQ2dfZqpjiQJbYHE9K0ZiL+A3EED/vigm JwTEqr4vQz7dwkuVLbLGTz/A7AxSsQivNTbpbdjaGBEfPuuFzu/neyjHJB0YDQaP ZClj73ghlTST8G5ZiaNJR36ZVG1JVG/vlwR0FM1hSLe281I/fpVt4RdWmg59KSFC kPX4fwctZmv2d85me+v9ojCQrbRjpNHwDbucCMHJXUvs+utnH4nr6FAlhiYNxf0= =Dzq9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G2OYmj9cSczDaGGa--