[U-Boot] spi: Zapping non-dm drivers, deadline: v2018.09

[York Sun]

On 02/26/2018 09:25 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 08:28:45PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> 
>> Due to adding various new functionalities with SPI and SPI-FLASH
>> subsystems which are rounding in Mailing list for year+ [1] these long
>> term supporting spi driver which never seen any update with
>> driver-model conversion.
>>
>> We support to write another stack code for supporting these legacy
>> stuff, but things become more difficult. So I'm finally giving
>> deadlines for these drivers to respective driver or board developers
>> to convert them as soon as possible.
>>
>> PS: We all agree some special platforms has some difficulties with
>> dm-conversion let's discuss.
>>
>> No dm conversion yet:
>> ----------------------------
>> drivers/spi/cf_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/fsl_espi.c
>> drivers/spi/lpc32xx_ssp.c
>> drivers/spi/mpc8xx_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/mpc8xxx_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/sh_qspi.c
>> drivers/spi/sh_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/soft_spi_legacy.c
>>
>>
>> Partially converted:
>> -------------------------
>> drivers/spi/atcspi200_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/davinci_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/fsl_dspi.c
>> drivers/spi/fsl_qspi.c
>> drivers/spi/kirkwood_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/mxc_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/omap3_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/ti_qspi.cM
>>
>> I would like to see these legacy drivers with full dm-conversion or
>> zapped in v2018.09 version of U-Boot.
>>
>> [1] http://u-boot.10912.n7.nabble.com/PATCH-v10-00-27-dm-Generic-MTD-Subsystem-with-SPI-NOR-interface-td315694i20.html
> 
> I've added a bunch of people to the Cc list.  I am in agreement with
> this idea.  I'd also rather not push the deadline here out further.
> Please, speak out if this is a problem, or if you'd like to drop some
> code / platforms.  Thanks all!
> 

My only concern is for legacy platforms such as mpc8xxx. As long as the
new dm-driver doesn't force to use device tree which mpc8xxx doesn't
have, it should continue to work.

York