[GIT PULL] DaVinci cleanup for v3.3

[Nori, Sekhar]

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 19:58:03, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2011, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
> > I have this lone patch queued for DaVinci clean-up so far.
> > Can you please pull this?
> > 
> > The following changes since commit caca6a03d365883564885f2c1da3e88dcf65d139:
> >   Linus Torvalds (1):
> >         Linux 3.2-rc3
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://gitorious.org/linux-davinci/linux-davinci.git v3.3/cleanup
> > 
> 
> Pulled into next/cleanups, but not happy about the patch.
> 
> While the patch is a move in the right direction, it is not sufficient for
> what you intend with it:
> 
> Author: Manjunath Hadli <manjunath.hadli at ti.com>
> Date:   Sat Nov 12 20:36:02 2011 +0530
> 
>     ARM: davinci: vpif: move code to driver core header from platform
>     
>     Move vpif related definitions for capture and display drivers
>     from dm646x platform header file to vpif_types.h inside
>     the driver as these definitions are related to driver code
>     rather than the platform or board.
>     
>     This enables reusing this IP across platforms.
> 
> If you really want to use the same IP on future platforms, the correct
> approach would be to get rid of the requirement for having platform-
> specific callbacks and setup data, and replace it all with device tree
> based probing. I can understand that you consider mach-davinci legacy
> code and don't want to rework it in significant ways, but if a driver
> that is used in there is not legacy code, it should be updated to the
> modern ways of doing this.

Yes, agreed. In this case the other platform is not an OMAP
but an existing DaVinci platform - da850. There are no plans
of using VPIF on any new OMAP platforms AFAIK.

Thanks for pulling the patch.

Regards,
Sekhar