[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 2/4] mx6: thermal: Add i.MX6 CPU thermal sensor support

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 15:16:27 CET 2014


Hi Stefano,

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:

> I have some conceptional question here. This introduces a new set or,
> better, "class" of drivers, as we are used to see in kernel as
> "thermal". As we discussed in last u-boot mini summit, the preferred way
> to introduce new drivers into current u-boot is to use DM (Driver
> Model), because this is the way u-boot will follow in the future. It
> will take some time porting the current drivers, but it is easier for
> drivers introducing new features.

It is a good idea to convert this to the driver model, but Nitin is
already at v6 and only now this request is made. First version of this
patch series was sent back in August:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-August/187685.html

Could the conversion to DM be handled later by a separate patch?

Regards,

Fabio Estevam


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