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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: Re[8]: [PATCH v3] mfd: syscon: Add non-DT support
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On Wednesday 20 February 2013, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> But one question i wonder is that it may be hard to know how many poteintial
> non-dt platforms may use syscon.

Yes, good point. Of course we want as many platforms as possible to
use syscon, just like we want them to use DT, because both things
are generally useful concepts, but they are not necessarily tied
together.

	Arnd