[PATCH v2] ASoC: omap: convert per-board modules to platform drivers

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:01:35PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> > Well, with DT, there won't be any 'board type' anymore.  There won't be
> > any 'machine_is_xxx()' to sort it out anymore.  Using DT, all that will
> > be history - it's all got to be sorted out by either devices or device
> > properties.
> 
> There is a board type - there's a root compatible property for the board
> which fulfils this purpose - so the situation with and without device
> tree is essentially the same.

So instead of a table of machine id numbers and soc device strings, you're
going to have a table of board 'compatible' strings and soc device strings,
and you're going to have to manually create the struct device with that
name.

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.