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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: dove: Remove watchdog from DT
Dear Sebastian Hesselbarth,

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:11:42 +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:

> I didn't try to post all the dove on mach-mvebu patches in the current
> release cycle, because mach-mvebu is still evolving to fast for me to keep
> up with my limited spare time. But I have dove running on mach-mvebu...

Yes, this work is really great. However, I think that instead of making
a big change at once, we should rather follow something like:

* Make mach-dove, mach-kirkwood, mach-orion5x, mach-mv78xx0 use the
new gpio/pinctrl code

* Remove the plat-orion gpio/pinctrl code

* Make mach-dove, mach-kirkwood, mach-orion5x, mach-mv78xx0 use DT for
everything.

* Remove the plat-orion common.c file (once all devices are probed
through DT, common.c is no longer needed).

* Add clock framework support for everybody, with the code in
drivers/clk/.

* Refactor the PCI code so that it can cover all cases. We should soon
be working on PCI support on Armada 370/XP, so it will show what are
the differences/issues in having something that covers all cases.

* And then, only, merge everybody in mach-mvebu.

The idea here is to make the existing
mach-{dove,kirkwood,orion5x,mv78xx0} gradually converge to DT,
pinctrl/gpio, clock and other things, and only after that merge into
mach-mvebu. It will be much easier to do the merge as most of the code
in those mach- directory will have disappeared, as well as the code in
plat-orion.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com


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