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From: broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] ASoC: omap: convert per-board modules to platform drivers
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:43:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110910214343.GB21361@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109102237.15193.arnd@arndb.de>

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:37:15PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 09 September 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> > That's just twisted and utterly insane - adding more code for precisely
> > zero benefit what so ever.  Think about it - the device tree is already
> > creating platform devices for entries in the device tree file.  What's

> Exactly. No driver or (worse) user program should ever need to look at
> the top-level compatible property. When you want information about a
> localized part of the system (e.g. the ASoC components), you should
> look up the information for that component.

Right, and this is the state of the art right now.  I can see why people
find this inelegant and want to come up with a way of automatically
generating all these different devices to describe boards especially
with the non-device tree systems, though, so if people want to work on
that stuff I don't see a problem with it.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-10 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-08 17:34 [PATCH v2] ASoC: omap: convert per-board modules to platform drivers Mans Rullgard
2011-09-08 18:17 ` Jassi Brar
2011-09-08 18:18   ` Mark Brown
2011-09-08 18:35     ` Jassi Brar
2011-09-08 19:08       ` Mans Rullgard
2011-09-08 19:05   ` Mans Rullgard
2011-09-08 19:17     ` Jassi Brar
2011-09-08 19:26       ` Mans Rullgard
2011-09-08 20:28     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-08 22:29       ` Mark Brown
2011-09-08 22:37         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-08 22:47           ` Mark Brown
2011-09-08 23:01             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-08 23:59               ` Mark Brown
2011-09-09  8:48                 ` Jassi Brar
2011-09-09  9:41                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-09 16:11                   ` Mark Brown
2011-09-09 19:01                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-09 19:30                       ` Mark Brown
2011-09-09 20:56                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-10 20:37                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-10 21:43                             ` Mark Brown [this message]

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