[FOR DISCUSSION 0/9] Dove PMU support
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Fri Mar 13 05:47:19 PDT 2015
On Friday 13 March 2015 12:32:11 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 01:26:17PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Friday 13 March 2015 12:11:27 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > Of course, I also have a patch which adds legacy support to
> > > arch/arm/mach-dove, but I've assumed you're not interested in that...
> >
> > You mean legacy support in mach-mvebu?
>
> No.
>
> As you'll see, this uses a platform device notifier to hook the devices
> onto the appropriate PM domain, which is why the driver needs to be
> registered early. This also gets used in DT mode with one legacy
> platform device which is dynamically registered (something which can't
> happen with DT.)
Ok, got it. I think that's fine too. If this helps you spend less
time on forward-porting your patches and in turn completing the
full dove support with DT faster, I'm all for merging this one too.
Arnd
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