Re: [PATCH 00/33] Use common macro to define resources

[Heiko Stübner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2012, 06:19:39 schrieb Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-
VILLARD:
> On 09:42 Wed 25 Apr     , Tushar Behera wrote:
> > There are some helper macros (DEFINE_RES_XXX) for defining resource
> > structures. This patchset migrates all the earlier resource
> > definitions (within Samsung specific code base) to use these macros.
> > 
> > In some cases, it was not possible to use DEFINE_RES_IRQ() macro because
> > of usage of additional flags. In those cases, DEFINE_RES_NAMED() macro
> > is used instead.
> > 
> > The patches are rebased on top of Kukjin's for-next branch at this
> > commit.
> > 
> > d0ee53a Merge branch 'next/board-samsung' into for-next
> 
> is this really necessary as we switch to DT this code will be droped

As far as I know legacy SoCs are allowed to keep being non-DT and I don't see 
the older Samsung SoCs (especially the S3C24XX ones) changing to DT anytime 
soon, as they don't see any new development but only bug fixes currently.


> for my point of view it's cosmetics change
it is, but it also makes the code more readable


Heiko

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