Re: [PATCH V5 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Apr 28 2016 - 07:54:38 EST


On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:00:26PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 April 2016 17:58:04 Sagar Dharia wrote:

> > +int slim_add_device(struct slim_controller *ctrl, struct slim_device *sbdev)

> This looks like an artifact of ancient pre-DT times. I'd say kill it off before
> someone starts using it.

Not every architecture uses DT, and even on architectures with DT
support it isn't always the only firmware. In this specific case it's
questionable how many people are going to implement Slimbus at this
point but in general insisting that we go DT only doesn't seem great.

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