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. -- 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
