[RFC 2/2] ARM:Tegra: Device Tree Support: Initialize audio card gpio's from the device tree.

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Jun 2 11:40:50 EDT 2011


On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 08:59:55AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>
>> My perspective is that cut/pasting the entire SoC definition into a board
>> definition is the devicetree equivalent of having more than one driver
>> per chip, not sharing gpio/pinmux/... code, etc. in the kernel; the very
>> stuff that caused Linus to complain about the state of ARM Linux.
>
> Very strongly agreed, we've had to do that in the past because of
> limitations in the device tree infrastructure but if we end up having to
> cut'n'paste that's not going to be great for maintainability.

+2

cut'n'paste is not an option.  period.  :-)

g.


>



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