On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 07:08:23PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 4:35 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But why? I'm not seeing the advantage over providing platform data > > based on DMI quirks here, it seems like a bunch of work for no reason. > What do you mean by additional work? It's exactly opposite since most > of the drivers in the kernel are using the fwnode interface rather > than platform data. Why should we _add_ the specific platform data > handling code in the certain drivers instead of not touching them at > all? It's adding an entirely new representation of standard data with less validation support than either DT or platform data which seems like a needlessly roundabout and error prone way of moving the data about with less tooling support. As far as I can tell the only advantage is that it lets you write the quirk in a different source file but I'm finding it hard to get excited about that. If we were fixing up an existing ACPI binding or something this approach would make sense to me but it's making something entirely new out of whole cloth here. We already have generic platform data support for the regulator API so driver modifications would just be the DMI matching which is going to have to happen somewhere anyway, I don't see a huge win from putting them in one file rather than another. It should basically just boil down to being another data table, I imagine you could write a helper for it, or probably even come up with some generic thing that let you register a platform data/DMI combo independently of the driver to get it out of the driver code (looking more like the existing GPIO code which is already being used in another bit of this quirking). It feels like this should be making more use of existing stuff than it is. If you look at what the core part of the code does it's taking data which was provided by one part of the kernel in one set of C structs and parsing those into a struct init_data which is what the core actually wants to consume. This seems like an entirely redundant process, we should be able to just write the machine configuration into some struct init_datas and get that associated with the regulators without creating an otherwise entirely unused intermediate representation of the data.
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