From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Add device tree binding for WM8753 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:07:24 +0900 Message-ID: <1313129244.19990.56.camel@finisterre.wolfsonmicro.main> References: <20110809065100.GB8017@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20110809142851.GA15861@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20110810045113.GA23625@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20110810063025.GA31765@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20110812035308.GA25184@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1313124082.19990.54.camel@finisterre.wolfsonmicro.main> <20110812055754.GC25184@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110812055754.GC25184@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>, Liam Girdwood , Grant Likely , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 22:57 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:41:22PM +0900, Mark Brown wrote: > > You tend to find that in a lot of systems only need a subset of the > > platform data - some of it can get pretty esoteric - or perhaps none at > > all so they'll be able to run happily even if not everything can be > > configured via the device tree. > That is why I said "devices that can't be adequately expressed". If we > can have bindings that satisfy majority of users then of course DT > handling code is more than welcome. You seemed to be suggesting that devices that have platform data that can't be expressed aren't worth adding DT support to - my point was that the value is more dependant on the system needs than on the full feature set that a driver can express.