From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: twl6040: Support for DT Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 08:34:14 -0700 Message-ID: <20120514153414.GM5140@atomide.com> References: <20120509133511.GQ3955@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <4FACF1C2.7050008@ti.com> <20120511130816.GB3960@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120511130816.GB3960-yzvPICuk2AATkU/dhu1WVueM+bqZidxxQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org To: Mark Brown Cc: alsa-devel-K7yf7f+aM1XWsZ/bQMPhNw@public.gmane.org, "devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" , Peter Ujfalusi , Misael Lopez Cruz , Liam Girdwood , Samuel Ortiz List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org * Mark Brown [120511 06:12]: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:02:26PM +0200, Cousson, Benoit wrote: > > > Describing sub nodes, especially for big SoC is pretty useful. > > It is as useful as doing that for board that are sharing similar components. > > The concern here is that the device tree you're writing here is clearly > just a direct translation of the particular stuff Linux happens to use > internally into device tree; this is similar to the thing with using > hwmod in the device tree representation and omitting basic stuff like > the register ranges. I agree we should not omit the register ranges from DT. That is hardware specific information that other operating systems possibly need, and they don't have hwmod. Regards, Tony