Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:51:29 +0100
From: Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@linaro.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/18] ASoC: sti: Update example to include
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Hi Mark,

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:52:10PM +0100, Peter Griffin wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > This one is more relevant though I'm still a bit concerned that there's
> > > an expectation that the examples can just be pasted in...
> 
> > So although I would only consider copying an example as the starting
> > point for getting something working (and indeed it was the case here). On STi
> > arch there *should* be a very high probability that copying the exanple 
> > is all that will be required.
> 
> If there are never going to be any new users why bother at all, why
> would anyone paste it in when all the SoCs that ever use this are
> already upstream?

Generally if I come across documentation which is incorrect, I like to fix it.

Currently the DT ASoC documentation doesn't match the driver and the example
doesn't work, which is not ideal. I could well be the last person who needs
to read it & use the example, but deliberately leaving it with mistakes in
seemed like a bad idea.

Peter.