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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, lars@metafoo.de,
	Javier Martin <javier.martin@vista-silicon.com>,
	w.sang@pengutronix.de, lrg@ti.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ASoC: tlv320aic32x4: Add rstn gpio to platform data.
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:40:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121102144027.GB4413@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5092953B.9080109@topic.nl>


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On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 04:28:59PM +0100, Mike Looijmans wrote:

> >This breaks down if any of the drivers actually uses the reset pin to
> >reset the chip - if the reset might not actually happen but the driver
> >wants it to happen then things are going to go wrong.

> Good point. But in that case, the gpio cannot be "optional", the
> board file MUST supply it.

Well, what normally happens is that the driver has some alternative
ways of doing what it wants but if there's a reset signal present it
wants to actually use it and be able to rely on it doing the job.

> Do I understand correctly that I'm totally alone in this and that
> there is no point in uploading the code?

If you want to do something like this you should explictly model reset
lines like this rather than shoehorning them into a different subsystem.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-02 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-31 10:53 [PATCH v2 1/2] ASoC: tlv320aic32x4: Fix problem with first capture Javier Martin
2012-10-31 10:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ASoC: tlv320aic32x4: Add rstn gpio to platform data Javier Martin
2012-10-31 14:40   ` Mike Looijmans
2012-11-01 14:35     ` Mark Brown
2012-11-01 15:28       ` Mike Looijmans
2012-11-02 14:40         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-11-05  8:14       ` javier Martin
2012-11-05  8:15         ` Mark Brown
2012-11-01 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ASoC: tlv320aic32x4: Fix problem with first capture Mark Brown

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