[RESEND PATCH 2/3 v6] cpufreq: mediatek: Add MT8173 cpufreq driver

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Tue Aug 18 03:24:28 PDT 2015


On 18-08-15, 12:09, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > +	pdev = platform_device_register_simple("mt8173-cpufreq", -1, NULL, 0);
> 
> This is not very friendly for multiplatform support
> (mt8173_cpufreq_driver_init() can be called on other platforms,
> i.e. Samsung Exynos7 one if ARCH_EXYNOS7 is also enabled in
> the kernel config).
> 
> Why can't it be fixed with checking Device Tree with
> of_machine_is_compatible("mediatek,mt8173")
> (assuming that it can be used on arm64 like on arm32)?

Because I asked him to remove that in v5 :( as I somehow had in mind
that this wouldn't even compile for other platforms.

@Pi-cheng: Please send v7 only for this patch and add the DT platform
check you were doing earlier. Sorry.

-- 
viresh



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