[PATCH v4 1/2] platform: Remove most references to platform_bus device

[Olof Johansson]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:49:01AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 06:07:18PM +0100, Pawel Moll wrote:
>> >> A number of board files in arch/arm and arch/unicore32
>> >> explicitly reference platform_bus device as a parent
>> >> for new platform devices.
>> >>
>> >> This is unnecessary, as platform device API guarantees
>> >> that devices with NULL parent are going to by adopted
>> >> by the mentioned "root" device.
>> >>
>> >> This patch removes or replaces with NULL such references.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm21664.c      |  3 +--
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm281xx.c      |  3 +--
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-clps711x/board-edb7211.c  |  6 +++---
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-clps711x/board-p720t.c    |  6 +++---
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-mx27ads.c        |  2 +-
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c  | 14 +++++++-------
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-bockw.c    | 19 ++++++++----------
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-genmai.c   |  5 ++---
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-koelsch.c  | 26 ++++++++++++-------------
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-lager.c    | 34 ++++++++++++++-------------------
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-marzen.c   |  1 -
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r7s72100.c |  2 +-
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a73a4.c  |  8 ++++----
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7778.c  | 13 ++++++-------
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7779.c  |  6 +++---
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7790.c  | 10 +++++-----
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7791.c  |  8 ++++----
>> >>  arch/unicore32/kernel/puv3-core.c       |  2 +-
>> >>  arch/unicore32/kernel/puv3-nb0916.c     |  6 +++---
>> >>  19 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > Looks good, if there are no objections, I'll take this through my
>> > driver-core tree, so that your follow-on patches that change things will
>> > still apply.
>>
>> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
>>
>> Just in case we end up having dependent patches and/or lots of
>> conflicts, can you stick these on a short topic branch that we can
>> also pull in?
>
> Hm, I don't normally do "short topic branches", so I've just stuck it
> into my driver-core-next branch of my driver-core.git tree on
> kernel.org.  I doubt the "make platform_bus static" or "make it a
> platform device" will happen soon, given my questions on the other patch
> in this series.

Ok. Hopefully this doesn't cause too many conflicts before the merge
window. None right now. And if it does, driver-core-next is only 30
patches so we could merge it as a dependency if needed (I'll let you
know if it comes to that).


-Olof