From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= <mans@mansr.com>
To: Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: Grafting old platform drivers onto a new DT kernel
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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:12:16 +0000
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	17:07:27 +0100")
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Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> writes:

> On 09/11/2015 16:40, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>
>> The simplest solution for you is probably to add a quick and dirty DT
>> binding to the old driver.  If it doesn't use any driver-specific
>> platform data struct, you only need to set .of_match_table in the
>> struct platform_driver.  If there is a platform data struct, you'll also
>> need to write some code to populate it from DT properties.  It shouldn't
>> take more than a few minutes per driver in most cases.
>
> I'll try that approach, although I fear that "a few minutes per driver"
> is an optimistic assessment.

If the driver only needs an MMIO region and an IRQ, it is literally five
lines of code.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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