[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Add device tree binding for WM8753

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:41:22PM +0900, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 20:53 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > Maybe should not add DT bindings for devices that can't be adequately
> > expressed via DT properties [yet]? Because I do not see what benefits we
> > get since platform code still needs to provide missing data and now we'd
> > have issue of data not being there when device is registered and driver
> > is being bound to it.
> 
> You tend to find that in a lot of systems only need a subset of the
> platform data - some of it can get pretty esoteric - or perhaps none at
> all so they'll be able to run happily even if not everything can be
> configured via the device tree.

That is why I said "devices that can't be adequately expressed". If we
can have bindings that satisfy majority of users then of course DT
handling code is more than welcome.

-- 
Dmitry