[PATCH v5 3/3] ARM: dts: igep00x0: add wl18xx bindings

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 10 March 2015 16:31:33 Eliad Peller wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 March 2015 13:00:19 Eliad Peller wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> >> >> > I was expecting you to remove all calls to legacy_init_wl12xx from this file,
> >> >> > including the ones for wl12xx aside from the wl18xx ones you removed, but
> >> >> > if that's enough to clean out the platform_data handling from the wlcore
> >> >> > driver, it's good enough as a start.
> >> >> not sure i'm following - can you elaborate?
> >> >>
> >> >> i'll summarize the way i see it. please correct me if i'm wrong.
> >> >>
> >> >> both wl18xx and wl12xx use the platform data to get the irq number.
> >> >> wl12xx (only) also needs some additional clock definitions to be
> >> >> passed. there's currently some issue with specifying some the of clock
> >> >> sources, so i preferred starting only with (the simpler) wl18xx
> >> >> bindings.
> >> >>
> >> >> for platforms with wl18xx, we can remove the pdata-quirk, as all the
> >> >> data (i.e. irq) can be passed by the new DT bindings.
> >> >> however, for platforms with wl12xx, we still need to pass the clock
> >> >> definitions (along with the irq), so we have to keep
> >> >> legacy_init_wl12xx for the time being (and that's also why we have to
> >> >> currently keep the platform_data handling in the wlcore driver)
> >> >>
> >> >> do you have something else in mind?
> >> >
> >> > I think what Arnd is saying is we've now removed all the wl12xx using
> >> > legacy platforms, so all of them can boot with just data from dts.
> >
> > Right, that was my idea.
> >
> >> I don't think that's the case (unless i'm missing something).
> >> e.g. there's still pdata-quirk for "compulab,omap3-sbc-t3730" which
> >> initializes wl12xx device.
> >
> > This one is just like the igep0030, as Tony was saying: the board
> > boots from device tree already, so now that we have a binding for
> > it, we can remove the wl12xx_set_platform_data() for it.
> >
> i think the wl12xx_set_platform_data() name created some confusion -
> it is used to pass platform data for both wl12xx and wl18xx devices.
> (this confusion is all around the wlcore driver as well, due to the
> code evolution)
> 
> the binding i added is for wl18xx only (there is no wl12xx binding yet).
> the remaining boards, AFAICT, have wl12xx (rather than wl18xx) cards.
> so i don't see how we can remove these wl12xx_set_platform_data()
> calls before we have wl12xx bindings in-place as well.

What is missing for that binding then? I keep getting confused here,
but I thought that they share the implementation that looks at the
platform data.

	Arnd