Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:43:44 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] ASoC: omap: convert per-board modules to platform drivers |
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:37:15PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 09 September 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > That's just twisted and utterly insane - adding more code for precisely > > zero benefit what so ever. Think about it - the device tree is already > > creating platform devices for entries in the device tree file. What's
> Exactly. No driver or (worse) user program should ever need to look at > the top-level compatible property. When you want information about a > localized part of the system (e.g. the ASoC components), you should > look up the information for that component.
Right, and this is the state of the art right now. I can see why people find this inelegant and want to come up with a way of automatically generating all these different devices to describe boards especially with the non-device tree systems, though, so if people want to work on that stuff I don't see a problem with it.
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