Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:38:36 +0200 | From | Alexandre Belloni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/13] RTC: ds1307: Add DS1341 specific power-saving options |
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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
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