Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:35:29 -0700 | From | Grant Likely <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 01/15] dt/powerpc: move of_bus_type infrastructure to ibmebus |
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:46:48PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2011, Grant Likely wrote: > > arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c is the only remaining user of the > > of_bus_type support code for initializing the bus and registering > > drivers. All others have either been switched to the vanilla platform > > bus or already have their own infrastructure. > > > > This patch moves the functionality that ibmebus is using out of > > drivers/of/{platform,device}.c and into ibmebus.c where it is actually > > used. Also renames the moved symbols from of_platform_* to > > ibmebus_bus_* to reflect the actual usage. > > > > This patch is part of moving all of the of_platform_bus_type users > > over to the platform_bus_type. > > > > Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> > > The ibmebus is essentially the platform bus of the IBM Power Systems (a.k.a. > pSeries a.k.a. System p), I think it would make a lot of sense to convert > the two drivers (ehca and ehea) on this bus into platform drivers as well. > > The original reason for this bus was to provide a different IOMMU for them > than what is used on the PCI devices. This should now be possible in simpler > ways.
Agreed. Anybody want to volunteer to craft a patch?
In the mean time, do you have any problem with this patch? (assuming nobody is able to take on the task of converting those drivers immediately).
g.
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