From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Add device tree binding for WM8753 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 23:51:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20110809065100.GB8017@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1312778255-29755-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f170.google.com ([209.85.210.170]:58638 "EHLO mail-iy0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751257Ab1HIGvH (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2011 02:51:07 -0400 Received: by iye16 with SMTP id 16so10467146iye.1 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:51:07 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Brown , Liam Girdwood , Grant Likely , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org Hi Barry, On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 04:38:41PM +0800, Barry Song wrote: > 2011/8/8 Mark Brown : > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown > > Without this patch, DT can still connect driver with device by the > heuristic way(of_modalias_node). > > i have a patch just like yours in input subsystem "[PATCH v2] input: > touchscreen: add OF match table for ads7846" with "Acked-by: Grant > Likely", but Dmitry seems to just ignore it. > > so not sure whether this kind of new added match tables are totally > liked by people or not. The issue I have with the ads7846 driver is that it still needs platform code to supply the needed platform data structure to make the driver/device usable. So I am not sure what the benefit DT matching code brings to that driver. Thanks. -- Dmitry