From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mrst: add SFI platform device parsing code
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:27:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100923142720.13bf9d69@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100923141133.GG25663@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>
> > There should be no variations and the nature of the platform means
> > that might even work out. I don't really want to add it to the
> > table unless we have lots needing DMI data. Right now we don't and
> > there are multiple platform implementations in existence.
>
> What is it about this platform that is going to restrict the problem?
The sort of people who will be using it and how,
> Code which makes this sort of assumption about knowing the platforms
> that the device will be deployed on well is relatively common but the
> usual result is that OEMs want to change the reference platforms and
> the assumptions that the code has been making about the systems and
> about how people will work with the code break down.
There are non reference platforms in existence without the problem you
envisage having occurred. So I think we'll worry about it if it happens
but knowing that with DMI we have the tools to deal with this.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-20 14:01 [PATCH] x86/mrst: add SFI platform device parsing code Alan Cox
2010-09-20 15:04 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-20 14:27 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-20 15:27 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-22 4:03 ` Grant Likely
2010-09-22 15:22 ` David Woodhouse
2010-09-22 15:33 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-22 15:35 ` David Woodhouse
2010-09-22 15:39 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-22 22:04 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-22 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 6:07 ` Grant Likely
2010-09-23 9:54 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-23 10:27 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 10:27 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-23 10:58 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 10:52 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-23 10:13 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 14:11 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-23 13:27 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-09-23 14:46 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-23 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 10:48 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-23 10:54 ` Mark Brown
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