[PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 09:27:43AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> [111020 02:07]:

> > We can always start off just completely omitting the data and then see
> > how we go from there.  If we only cover 50% of users that's still 50%
> > more than are currently covered with device tree right now and it means
> > we can then spin round and look at the bits that are hard again without
> > review fatigue on the bits that are easy.

> We still need to pass the board configuration somehow, otherwise we can
> never remove all the platform data glue layers. And if we can't do that,
> we'll forever have all the nasty merge conflicts when adding new drivers.
> And there's an unnecessary dependency between adding drivers and the
> core SoC code.

The current patches cover the overwhelming majority of the existing
board configuration - the stuff that's Linux specific is also relatively
rarely used in actual systems.  For example all the board I work with
regularly would be perfectly happy with the generic stuff - the Linux
specific stuff is relatively rarely used.