hwmod data duplication (was: Re: [RFC/NOT FOR MERGING 2/3] serial: omap: remove hwmod dependency)

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:31:28PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com> [130219 14:26]:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:09:33PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > 
> > > ..that means massive amount of churn in the board-*.c files to convert
> > > them to various init functions to be called from board-generic.c and
> > > removing the ones that are working with DT.
> > 
> > why ? I meant that only what's not converted to DT today should be
> > handled this way. Also, most of the "churn" is already there
> > (usb_musb_init(), usb_ehci_init(), etc etc), it just needs to be called
> > from a different place. We don't need to have one function for each
> > board, however, maybe we could target by-soc:
> > 
> > if (of_is_compatible("omap3"))
> > 	omap3_init_devices(); /* or whatever you wanna call it */
> > 
> > omap_init_devices() has initialization for everything which isn't DT
> > adapted today and as we move things to DT, there's a single place to
> > remove code from.
> 
> And the pdata for that comes from where? :) I think that means
> converting each board-*.c to device init functions, which leads to
> the churn I was mentioning..

fair enough, still a lot less churn ;-)

-- 
balbi
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