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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] RTC: ds1307: Add DS1341 specific power-saving options
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:38:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160720153836.GS7132@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHQ1cqEoN7PEQApHBo-FOqumtLJWoURHOPZfrzL=6h2p4S0Fdg@mail.gmail.com>

On 20/07/2016 at 07:36:55 -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote :
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > On 19/07/2016 at 16:56:56 -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote :
> >> >> I don't see any value in doing that, could you give me a realistic
> >> >> example of a scenario in which a user would want to spend some of
> >> >> uptime with RTC oscillator fault detection/glitch filtering disabled
> >> >> and then enable it?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Well, the issue is not being dynamic, it is differentiating between
> >> > hardware description and user configuration. Configuration must not be in
> >> > DT.
> >>
> >> Why? And I don't mean in a generic sense, but in this particular case.
> >> What is gained by not having this bit of configuration, whose only
> >> consumer is the driver, in the device tree file?
> >>
> >
> > Because configuration doesn't belong to DT. DT is about hardware
> > description, not configuration.
> 
> That doesn't really answer my question. You just re-iterating some
> maxim without explaining what is the point behind applying it.
> 

Well, that is from the device tree specification and how the device tree
maintainers want it...

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-20 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-15  5:59 [PATCH 00/13] DS1341 support and code cleanup Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 01/13] RTC: ds1307: Add DS1341 variant Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 02/13] RTC: ds1307: Disable square wave and timers as default Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 03/13] RTC: ds1307: Add DS1341 specific power-saving options Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-19 14:29   ` Rob Herring
2016-06-19 18:12     ` Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-21 20:49       ` Rob Herring
2016-06-21 21:07         ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-06-22  2:34           ` Andrey Smirnov
2016-07-12 16:21             ` Andrey Smirnov
2016-07-19 22:47             ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-07-19 23:56               ` Andrey Smirnov
2016-07-20  9:02                 ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-07-20 14:36                   ` Andrey Smirnov
2016-07-20 15:38                     ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2016-07-20 16:11                       ` Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-21 23:23         ` Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 04/13] RTC: ds1307: Convert ds1307_can_wakeup_device into a predicate Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 05/13] RTC: ds1307: Convert want_irq " Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 06/13] RTC: ds1307: Move chip configuration into a separate routine Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 07/13] RTC: ds1307: Move chip sanity checking " Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 08/13] RTC: ds1307: Remove register "cache" Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 09/13] RTC: ds1307: Constify struct ds1307 where possible Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 10/13] RTC: ds1307: Convert goto to a loop Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 11/13] RTC: ds1307: Redefine RX8025_REG_* to minimize extra code Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 12/13] RTC: ds1307: Report oscillator problems more intelligently Andrey Smirnov
2016-06-15  5:59 ` [PATCH 13/13] RTC: ds1307: Move last bits of sanity checking out of chip_configure Andrey Smirnov

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