Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 18:14:21 +0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
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        Koen Kooi <koen@circuitco.com>, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: omap: Proper cleanups for omap_device
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 12:37:25PM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> > I don't like this at all, sorry.
> > 
> 
> Don't shoot the messenger please...
> 
> This is all about fixing a crash without messing too many things.

I understand, it's not your fault at all.

> > And I was waiting for the day when people started to finally remove
> > platform devices from the system, I always thought it would never work
> > properly.  Good luck with this, I think you have a lot of work ahead of
> > yourself...
> > 
> 
> I know.
> 
> Platform device removal is the wild-wild west...
> 
> If I had to make a wish, would be to kill platform_device completely and
> integrate all it's functionality in the the vanilla device.

YES!!!!

> What exactly is a platform device anyway?

Originally it was a "something that wasn't connected to a bus, but just
had memory-mapped i/o."  Like the PS2 keyboard controller.

Embedded systems got ahold of this and went to town, and made everything
a platform device because they could, and no one was paying attention.

Then OF came along and used it as well, and you know the rest...

I think we need to get the ACPI and OF people, and me, in a room
together at the kernel summit and not let us out until we have this all
worked out.

thanks,

greg k-h
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