Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:55:58 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/3] pinctrl: add a driver for NVIDIA Tegra | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> wrote:
> Hence, there's no point parsing it from device tree; we end up with exactly > the same data in the driver, yet have spent a bunch of time parsing it out > from device tree instead of just embedding it into the kernel binary.
For me there are two points:
- Avoiding clash with kernel maintainers who hate firmware-like tables and binary data filling up the kernel. Some certain other guy bearing my name comes to mind.
- Footprint: the majority of the stuff in your driver ends up in non-discardable memory, and will be kept around. Since we have this concept of a single zImage for a number of say ARMv7 systems, and since pin controllers can be pretty hard to load from modules, *all* of them may have to be compiled-in. If every driver for every board takes this approach I am afraid it will be end up with a measurable footprint.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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