Re: [PATCH] ASoC: twl6040: Support for DT

[Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>]

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On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 03:42:41PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 05/08/2012 03:26 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Why are we loading MFD components using device tree?  It seems like
> > we're doing something very wrong if we need people to explicitly write

> I have based the twl6040 DT structure on the already existing twl4030,
> twl6030 MFD parts.

This really isn't relevant to the issue...

> Also without a DT entry I will not have a way to use phandle to connect
> the codec in the machine driver.

Of course you do!  There's going to be a device tree entry for the chip,
things can point at this perfectly happily.

> I would expect other operating systems should be able to sue this
> structure since in every environment there must be a way to handle MFD
> devices.

A lot of things would just handle them by providing a single device
driver which covers the entire chip.  Things like the split between the
vibra and CODEC drivers definitely vary between systems.

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