RE: [PATCH] ASoC: fsl-asrc: Convert to use regmap framework's endianness method.

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>> >Why does this have to change the semantics of the DT binding?
>> >
>>
>> I'm thinking that maybe in the late fulture, this device will be
>> applied to some PowerPC SoC, from the regmap framework code, we can
>> see that the 'big-endian' property could be ignored.
>>
>> So,in this case,  if it is absent, the default endian mode should be
>> used as defualt or native as the regmap framework said.
>
> As I have mentioned in the past w.r.t. endianness bindings, there is no
> such thing as a "default endianness" or "native endianness".
>
> PowerPC and ARM can be Bi-endian, configured by the kernel.
>
> The hardware's registers have a fixed endianness regardless of this
> runtime configuration.
>
> So describe that fixed property, as that does not vary with kernel
> configuration (and is therefore a property of the HW rather than the
> combination of HW + kernel).
>

Yeah, okay.

I'll remove the document binding's modification.



> Thanks,
> Mark.
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