Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:12:10 +0530 | From | Rajendra Nayak <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data |
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On Wednesday 19 October 2011 08:40 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > The problem is that the DT is supposed to be separate to the kernel and > the decisions can depend on what the kernel is currently capable of. > When the data is embedded in the kernel it's not an issue as the data is > attached to the rest of the code, when the data becomes detatched from > the kernel it becomes an issue.
completely agreed.
> > I don't see any issue with leaving some things out of the DT bindings; > you were the one raising that as a concern.
The problem is, that there doesn't seem to be a clean way to embed *board data* into the kernel with DT, if left out of the DT bindings. There is the auxdata way of still attaching platform_data, but that I thought was a stopgap for just handling function pointers.
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