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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>, Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Add device tree binding for WM8753
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:57:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110812055754.GC25184@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313124082.19990.54.camel@finisterre.wolfsonmicro.main>

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:41:22PM +0900, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 20:53 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > Maybe should not add DT bindings for devices that can't be adequately
> > expressed via DT properties [yet]? Because I do not see what benefits we
> > get since platform code still needs to provide missing data and now we'd
> > have issue of data not being there when device is registered and driver
> > is being bound to it.
> 
> 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.

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-12  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-08  4:37 [PATCH] ASoC: Add device tree binding for WM8753 Mark Brown
2011-08-08  8:38 ` [alsa-devel] " Barry Song
2011-08-08  8:55   ` Mark Brown
2011-08-09  6:51   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-08-09 14:28     ` Mark Brown
2011-08-10  1:21       ` [alsa-devel] " Barry Song
2011-08-10  4:51         ` Mark Brown
2011-08-10  5:57           ` Barry Song
2011-08-10  6:30             ` Mark Brown
2011-08-12  3:16               ` Barry Song
2011-08-12  3:53                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-08-12  4:35                   ` Barry Song
2011-08-12  4:41                   ` [alsa-devel] " Mark Brown
2011-08-12  5:57                     ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2011-08-12  6:07                       ` Mark Brown
2011-08-08 15:46 ` Liam Girdwood

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