Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934646Ab2KBS0k (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:26:40 -0400 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:52844 "EHLO opensource.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934474Ab2KBS0g (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:26:36 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:26:32 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Linus Walleij Cc: Magnus Damm , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Felipe Balbi , Dmitry Torokhov , Benoit Cousson , Sourav Poddar , tony@atomide.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Grant Likely Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Input: omap4-keypad: Add pinctrl support Message-ID: <20121102182632.GF4413@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <20121026160316.GY18814@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20121029194901.GA30152@arwen.pp.htv.fi> <20121030112410.GM4511@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20121030114949.GC28722@arwen.pp.htv.fi> <20121030140714.GO4511@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20121030151642.GE29159@arwen.pp.htv.fi> <20121030155821.GU4511@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20121030172513.GA3993@arwen.pp.htv.fi> <20121030183704.GX4511@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZsxMXj7gRnSZQ7B8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Cookie: You will never know hunger. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2260 Lines: 52 --ZsxMXj7gRnSZQ7B8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:51:11PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Mark Brown > > More seriously the amount of time we seem to have been spending recently > > on changes which end up requiring us to go through essentially every > > driver and add code to them (often several times) doesn't seem like > > we're doing a good job here. > If this is your main concern you should be made aware that there > are people out there planning to supplant the existing DT probe paths > that are now being added to each and every ARM-related driver > with an ACPI probe path as ARM servers come into the picture. That's different as we're adding support for a new external interface which will need per device configuration parsing rather than reorganising things within the kernel; I'd expect it won't supplant DT but rather sit alongside it as it's more a requirement for the server market than for the embedded market. --ZsxMXj7gRnSZQ7B8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQlBBPAAoJELSic+t+oim95a8P/2gQNhkpjfeKtjLN+b7VjGx3 hS8eHcBUX37fs0Av+wz2BM+d6ySD7tBKsmw6No0KQvZW04JsO7KApQRSVJF+RU4k HJfxHj1nse6FNTYwmMlkL6WZcyC1EXMgje4i0jHkbOambdO4pQn4q/sILkvsWgun wBeTRDxViHVDAy6lNaHv79RId24cCsyUMPXpdj8PQ9Ci0jO0p6i2hxvHBMkwbMP1 RIIuGEEt/TWEQc2dq/FkXgazhWEr7KQcb8MyOeE26cRql23DGlRhxhmjAV3e+6HM 3sAPO0uBT+TPke5V+GOJXQLK7XoWW9zHoHobbRzWhwAOdm03KU7DO3B39/VvmJNl 4nWPtKWQc0QSA2rfCmBtAfLtyrSMDmlFPHFn41a/oHt82VZR7+JE9UPPi+bGusBo tnnv6Gco+/FIVDvmyWg/6lj0CMTb7nLhQ2TOjYVbsIhI1hZ4g0imWDW/pvlX4MEe Ea3+tFscm3bCQXI7mZSrgCbCRhoH8JXgcEKDYkBPciTYg5fSXP1FPuNHmhI2O8Jk t43LkaZlxF+y0Wsq3/84Vsxt8djl88m4GMlt3ueNNPfyAcjid2UN9uw/kQ+H8lw8 G+Y8Y3Nk8GBPwh0OKAbl7P6IM1plcV3tXSS6xHKkOFnyAn1zMpBgNq6sCyBjZ66U bP0aYlue/RpPa91nWU4L =qFjt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZsxMXj7gRnSZQ7B8-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/