Subject: [PATCH] ARM: SPEAr600: Add device-tree support to SPEAr600 boards

From: [email-masked] (Stefan Roese)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:38:51 +0100

On Thursday 15 March 2012 10:00:27 Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 3/15/2012 2:18 PM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> >>> > > +static const struct of_device_id vic_of_match[] __initconst = {
> >>> > > +	{ .compatible = "arm,pl190-vic", .data = vic_of_init, },
> >>> > > +	{ /* Sentinel */ }
> >>> > > +};
> >>> > > +
> >>> > > +static void __init spear6xx_dt_init_irq(void)
> >>> > > +{
> >>> > > +	of_irq_init(vic_of_match);
> >>> > > +}
> >>> > > +
> >> > 
> >> > What about adding this routine in vic.c file, which can then be used
> >> > by all platforms, instead of replicating this code.
> > 
> > We can't move vic_of_match to the vic.c, since there are differences
> > between the boards using it. And only moving spear6xx_dt_init_irq()
> > (renamed of course) doesn't seem worth it.
> 
> I knew this. Actually my thought was, we have two compatible strings for
> vic: pl190 and pl192.
> 
> So, create two vic_of_match* arrays and two vic*_dt_init_irq() routines.
> That will solve the issue i believe.

I still don't think its worth it. But please feel free to send an add-on 
patch, to "clean this up".

Thanks,
Stefan