[PATCH v2] pata-generic/of: Make probing via device tree non-powerpc-specific

[Dave Martin]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave,
>
> On 09/16/2011 11:22 AM, Dave Martin wrote:
>> This patch enables device-tree-based probing of the pata-generic
>> platform driver across all architectures:
>>
>>   * make the pata_of_generic module depend on OF instead of PPC_OF;
>>   * supply some missing inclues;
>>   * replace endianness-sensitive raw access to device tree data
>>     with of_property_read_u32() calls.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>
>> ---
>> v2: correct sense of the check of_property_read_u32(dn, "pio-mode",
>> &pio_mode).  Somehow I posted an old version of this patch, depite
>> having already fixed this...
>>
>> Tested on ARM Versatile Express, with my soon-to-be-posted device
>> tree support patches.
>>
>> I'm not in a position to build/test this for powerpc easily --
>> if anyone is able to do that, it would be appreciated.
>>
> Building just requires getting Codesourcery PPC toolchain...

True, but although I can try to build it, I don't have a PPC platform
to do the actual testing.

> You also have to be aware that you are enabling this for all OF-enabled
> arches which could break with an allyesconfig. So really you need sparc,
> x86, mips, and microblaze, but a subset is probably sufficient.

Fair point.

Since this has now been superseded by Grant's patch anyway, I'll leave
it for others to judge.

Cheers
---Dave