These three drivers all use U_BOOT_DEVICE rather than device tree to
create devices, so have to do manual allocation of platform data. This is
not true for new platforms.
Add a more explicit comment so that people do not copy this approach with
new boards.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Adam Ford <[email protected]>
* When every board is converted to driver model and DT is supported,
* this can be done by auto-alloc feature, but not using calloc
* to alloc memory for platdata.
+ *
+ * For example imx_rgpio2p_plat uses platform data rather than device
+ * tree.
+ *
+ * NOTE: DO NOT COPY this code if you are using device tree.
*/
plat = calloc(1, sizeof(*plat));
if (!plat)
* When every board is converted to driver model and DT is supported,
* this can be done by auto-alloc feature, but not using calloc
* to alloc memory for platdata.
+ *
+ * For example mxc_plat below uses platform data rather than device
+ * tree.
+ *
+ * NOTE: DO NOT COPY this code if you are using device tree.
*/
plat = calloc(1, sizeof(*plat));
if (!plat)
static int omap_gpio_bind(struct udevice *dev)
{
- struct omap_gpio_platdata *plat = dev->platdata;
+ struct omap_gpio_platdata *plat = dev_get_platdata(dev);
fdt_addr_t base_addr;
if (plat)
* When every board is converted to driver model and DT is
* supported, this can be done by auto-alloc feature, but
* not using calloc to alloc memory for platdata.
+ *
+ * For example am33xx_gpio uses platform data rather than device tree.
+ *
+ * NOTE: DO NOT COPY this code if you are using device tree.
*/
plat = calloc(1, sizeof(*plat));
if (!plat)