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Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus

From Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus
Date 2016-04-28 14:00 +0200
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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.

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[PATCH V5 0/6] Introduce framework for SLIMbus device drivers Sagar Dharia <sdharia@codeaurora.org> - 2016-04-28 02:00 +0200
  [PATCH V5 3/6] slimbus: Add messaging APIs to slimbus framework Sagar Dharia <sdharia@codeaurora.org> - 2016-04-28 02:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH V5 3/6] slimbus: Add messaging APIs to slimbus framework Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-28 12:00 +0200
  [PATCH V5 6/6] slim: qcom: Add runtime-pm support using clock-pause feature Sagar Dharia <sdharia@codeaurora.org> - 2016-04-28 02:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-28 12:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-04-28 14:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-28 14:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-04-28 16:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-28 17:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-04-28 18:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-28 19:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-04-29 13:20 +0200

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