On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:54:20PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > However, if we already have a generic driver for that type of panel, > (which we would need anyway for the DT based approach), the developer > only needs to add the name of the panel and the data for the power > sequence to the panel driver's database, which is about the same amount > of work as with DT. > So it's really just a question of where to put the data in question, DT > or driver. Both contain the same data, and the data structure may also > be the same. In DT's case it just needs to be parsed first, whereas in > database case you'll enter the data in structs. I think the device tree idiomatic way of doing this is to have a bunch of .dtsi files for the panels which then get included by reference in the board files. This isn't helpful to people working on non-DT architectures though.
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