[PATCH v2] PM / Domains: Remove obsolete "samsung, power-domain" check

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Fri Dec 1 04:26:13 PST 2017


On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas at glider.be> wrote:
> Currently the generic PM Domain code code checks for the presence of
> both (generic) "power-domains" and (Samsung Exynos legacy)
> "samsung,power-domain" properties in all device tree nodes representing
> devices.
>
> There are two issues with this:
>   1. This imposes a small boot-time penalty on all platforms using DT,
>   2. Platform-specific checks do not really belong in core framework
>      code.
>
> Remove the platform-specific check, as the last user of
> "samsung,power-domain" was removed in commit 46dcf0ff0de35da8 ("ARM:
> dts: exynos: Remove exynos4415.dtsi").  All other users were converted
> before in commit 0da6587041363033 ("ARM: dts: convert to generic power
> domain bindings for exynos DT").
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> ---
> This is v2 of 'PM / Domains: Restrict "samsung,power-domain" checks to
> ARCH_EXYNOS'.
>
> "samsung,power-domain" was only ever used in:
>   - arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4415.dtsi: Removed
>   - arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos3250.dtsi: CONFIG_ARCH_EXYNOS3
>   - arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4.dtsi:    CONFIG_ARCH_EXYNOS4
>   - arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4x12.dtsi: CONFIG_ARCH_EXYNOS4
>   - arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250.dtsi: CONFIG_ARCH_EXYNOS5
>   - arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5420.dtsi: CONFIG_ARCH_EXYNOS5
>
> v2:
>   - Remove the check completely instead of restricting it to
>     ARCH_EXYNOS, as suggested Javier Martinez Canillas one year ago
>     ("Removing the support for the deprecated property sound sensible to me",
>     http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-October/462868.html).
> ---
>  drivers/base/power/domain.c | 16 ++--------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>

The property was deprecated long enough and we anyway always ship DTB
+ kernel together thus:
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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