[PATCH v4 1/2] platform: Remove most references to platform_bus device

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Wed Jul 23 10:49:01 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 06:07:18PM +0100, Pawel Moll wrote:
>> A number of board files in arch/arm and arch/unicore32
>> explicitly reference platform_bus device as a parent
>> for new platform devices.
>>
>> This is unnecessary, as platform device API guarantees
>> that devices with NULL parent are going to by adopted
>> by the mentioned "root" device.
>>
>> This patch removes or replaces with NULL such references.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm21664.c      |  3 +--
>>  arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm281xx.c      |  3 +--
>>  arch/arm/mach-clps711x/board-edb7211.c  |  6 +++---
>>  arch/arm/mach-clps711x/board-p720t.c    |  6 +++---
>>  arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-mx27ads.c        |  2 +-
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-ape6evm.c  | 14 +++++++-------
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-bockw.c    | 19 ++++++++----------
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-genmai.c   |  5 ++---
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-koelsch.c  | 26 ++++++++++++-------------
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-lager.c    | 34 ++++++++++++++-------------------
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-marzen.c   |  1 -
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r7s72100.c |  2 +-
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a73a4.c  |  8 ++++----
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7778.c  | 13 ++++++-------
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7779.c  |  6 +++---
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7790.c  | 10 +++++-----
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7791.c  |  8 ++++----
>>  arch/unicore32/kernel/puv3-core.c       |  2 +-
>>  arch/unicore32/kernel/puv3-nb0916.c     |  6 +++---
>>  19 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
>
> Looks good, if there are no objections, I'll take this through my
> driver-core tree, so that your follow-on patches that change things will
> still apply.

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>

Just in case we end up having dependent patches and/or lots of
conflicts, can you stick these on a short topic branch that we can
also pull in?

Thanks,

-Olof



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