[PATCH 1/7] ARM: ux500: New DT:ed snowball_platform_devs for one-by-one device enablement

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Tue Apr 10 07:15:13 EDT 2012


On 10/04/12 12:02, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Lee Jones<lee.jones at linaro.org>  wrote:
>
>> Nothing is unused. When DT is disabled snowball_platform_devs will be used
>> to add the platform devices. This is, and will remain fully populated for
>> non-DT boots. The DT'ed version will decrease in size until the final
>> element is removed along with the definition.
>
> OK then..
>
>> I have ran this past Arnd, who thought this was a good idea. It's only a
>> temporary solution which well aide us in enabling devices spanned over
>> multiple submissions, rather than attempting to enable everything in a
>> single patch-set - which isn't going to happen.
>
> Sure so let's say that I add this patch immediately before the first patch
> removing atleast *one* of the entries, because until then it is certainly
> not needed.

Sounds sensible, thanks.

Kind regards,
Lee

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