[RFC] Support for 'Coda' video codec IP.

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Wed Jun 20 09:31:48 EDT 2012


On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:09:43PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:00:15AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > The approach a lot of platforms have been taking is that it's OK to keep
> > on maintaining existing boards using board files (especially for trivial
> > things like adding new devices).

> I think that's the approach being taken during the transition to device
> tree.  But it's definitely a desirable thing to remove those board
> files with device tree support at some point, because not having non-DT
> users will ease platform maintenance and new feature adoption a lot
> easier, for example linear irqdomain.

Moving to irqdomain without DT is really very easy, you just need to
select a legacy mapping if a base is provided and otherwise all the code
is identical - it just comes down to a field in platform data and an if
statement.
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