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.
prev parent 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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