Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] drivers: make early_platform code SuperH-specific

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 04 2019 - 09:00:36 EST


On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 11:29:11AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Some time ago I started a discussion about the need for a proper early device
> probing mechanism[1]. One that would be based on real platform drivers and
> support both platform data and device tree.
>
> While we're far from reaching any consensus on the implementation, Arnd
> suggested that I start off by moving the SuperH-specific early platform
> drivers implementation to arch/sh[2].
>
> This series is the first attempt at making way for a new, less hacky
> implementation.
>
> The first patch moves all the early_platform code to arch/sh.
>
> The second patch prefixes all early_platform symbols with 'sh_'.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/26/657
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/27/239
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - certain drivers are compiled for arm/mach-shmobile too - we need to
> add ifdefs for CONFIG_SUPERH around early_platform calls
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - added a stub for is_early_platform_device() which always returns false
> on non-SuperH architectures
>
> v3 -> v4:
> - rebased on top of v5.4-rc1
> - removed patches that are already upstream from the series
>
> Bartosz Golaszewski (2):
> drivers: move the early platform device support to arch/sh
> sh: add the sh_ prefix to early platform symbols

I like this, any objection from anyone if I take this in my driver-core
tree for 5.5-rc1?

thanks,

greg k-h