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From: grant.likely@secretlab.ca (Grant Likely)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm/dt: tegra devicetree support
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:47:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110720184758.GG4642@ponder.secretlab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF049EBDEF01@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com>

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:40:28AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Grant Likely wrote at Wednesday, July 20, 2011 12:32 PM:
> > The compatible property here definitely represents the hardware
> > because it reflects the sound infrastructure on the harmony board.
> 
> I can see that argument for "nvidia,harmony-sound".
> 
> But "nvidia,tegra-wm8903" is pretty generic; I can certainly see there
> being Tegra 20 systems that use a WM8903 but are so different from either
> Harmony or anything supported by sound/soc/tegra/tegra_wm8903.c that the
> existing driver isn't applicable. And hence, there may be a different
> ASoC driver for such board(s), and hence choosing such a generic name as
> "tegra-wm8903" for Harmony/Seaboard's audio layout seems like it might
> cause problems in the future.
> 
> I'm fine with such a generic name for the platform driver, since that name
> can fairly easily be modified just by editing the driver and the board file.
> But since *.dts files are at least logically separate from the kernel, such
> naming future-proofing is a little more important.

Sure, the tegra-wm8903 property can be dropped.  If we start to see a
really well established pattern of the tegra paired with a wm8903,
then at that point we can define a compatible property for it and
document exactly what it means (document the boundaries and
assumptions that the compatible value requires).

g.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-20 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-19 23:43 [PATCH] arm/dt: tegra devicetree support Grant Likely
2011-07-19 23:56 ` Olof Johansson
2011-07-20 18:56   ` Grant Likely
2011-07-20 15:37 ` Stephen Warren
2011-07-20 16:03   ` Mark Brown
2011-07-20 18:31     ` Grant Likely
2011-07-20 18:40       ` Stephen Warren
2011-07-20 18:47         ` Grant Likely [this message]
2011-07-20 19:49           ` Mark Brown
2011-07-20 18:28   ` Grant Likely
2011-07-20 18:33     ` Stephen Warren
2011-07-20 18:45       ` Grant Likely
2011-07-20 22:49   ` Shawn Guo

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