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 > the point of having this special ASoC code look up the platform compatible > property in a table of strings to find a different string to manually > create a device with. Why not just add the bloody device to the DT > file in the first place? That's partly what DT is there for - to create > platform specific struct devices. 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. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
