From: nicolas.ferre@atmel•com (Nicolas Ferre)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] at91: platform data for atmel-mci (for 3.5)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:48:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD8C476.3080904@atmel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FCCD8D9.2070005@atmel.com>
On 06/04/2012 05:48 PM, Nicolas Ferre :
> On 05/31/2012 11:04 PM, Olof Johansson :
>> Hi Nicolas,
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel•com
>> <mailto:nicolas.ferre@atmel•com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/24/2012 05:12 PM, Nicolas Ferre :
>> > Hi Arnd, hi Olof,
>>
>> Ping?
>>
>> (or maybe you will have a look at this after the merge window...)
>>
>>
>> So, I looked at this branch yesterday but I wasn't entirely happy with
>> the number of ifdefs it adds.
>
> Unfortunately, this is the usual shape of any devices/boards files on
> AT91. This amount will be reduced when we remove the old driver and when
> we move newer/popular devices to Device Tree...
>
>> If the idea is to deprecate the old driver, wouldn't it make more sense
>> to just cut everyone over instead of having both sets of setup in the
>> kernel?
>
> Well, the old driver has existed since a very long time and I think that
> people are used to it on oldest platforms. This is why we put in place a
> overlapping period. This way we hope that the transition will be smoother.
> On the other hand, the old code will be removed in 3.7 so the
> overlapping period will not be so long.
> I hope that it will allow people to track bugs if some are remaining and
> switch to newer driver easily.
Olof, Arnd,
So, do you have made up your mind about this pull request?
Best regards,
--
Nicolas Ferre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-13 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-24 15:12 [GIT PULL] at91: platform data for atmel-mci (for 3.5) Nicolas Ferre
2012-05-31 7:50 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-05-31 21:04 ` Olof Johansson
2012-06-04 15:48 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-06-13 16:48 ` Nicolas Ferre [this message]
2012-06-18 13:49 ` Olof Johansson
2012-06-20 7:45 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-07-25 20:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-26 8:35 ` ludovic.desroches
2012-08-07 13:05 ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-08-10 7:46 ` Nicolas Ferre
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