Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:40:06 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data |
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 09:27:43AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> [111020 02:07]:
> > We can always start off just completely omitting the data and then see > > how we go from there. If we only cover 50% of users that's still 50% > > more than are currently covered with device tree right now and it means > > we can then spin round and look at the bits that are hard again without > > review fatigue on the bits that are easy.
> We still need to pass the board configuration somehow, otherwise we can > never remove all the platform data glue layers. And if we can't do that, > we'll forever have all the nasty merge conflicts when adding new drivers. > And there's an unnecessary dependency between adding drivers and the > core SoC code.
The current patches cover the overwhelming majority of the existing board configuration - the stuff that's Linux specific is also relatively rarely used in actual systems. For example all the board I work with regularly would be perfectly happy with the generic stuff - the Linux specific stuff is relatively rarely used.
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