From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755277Ab2LSOPm (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:15:42 -0500 Received: from hqemgate04.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.35]:3163 "EHLO hqemgate04.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752589Ab2LSOPg (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:15:36 -0500 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp05.nvidia.com on Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:15:36 -0800 Message-ID: <50D1CC07.6070506@nvidia.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:45:35 +0530 From: Laxman Dewangan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Likely CC: Stephen Warren , "alan@linux.intel.com" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "jslaby@suse.cz" , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: tegra: add serial driver References: <1355746249-15347-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <20121217171027.6AE573E0BDD@localhost> <50CF8F36.2030309@wwwdotorg.org> <20121219130151.F29CA3E0AD7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20121219130151.F29CA3E0AD7@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 19 December 2012 06:31 PM, Grant Likely wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:31:34 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: >> On 12/17/2012 10:10 AM, Grant Likely wrote: >>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:40:49 +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote: >> >> Aren't we still supposed to support platform data so that it can >> override what's in DT in order to fix up bad DTs? Or, has that >> requirement been dropped. If it has, we can drop a bunch of code from a >> variety of Tegra-specific drivers, I expect. > Do you have an actual user for this? If not, then don't borrow trouble. > Just drop it. Things like platform_data can always be added later only > if it is needed. Currently all our board supports DT. we are not using any driver instantiated by board files. I will remove the platform data for current patch and if it is require then will add later with reasoning. Hope this will be fine with Stephen also so that this basic patch can be included into tree soon.