Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754253AbcJUJyg (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:54:36 -0400 Received: from arroyo.ext.ti.com ([198.47.19.12]:43266 "EHLO arroyo.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750884AbcJUJye (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:54:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: bus: da8xx-syscfg: new driver To: Tomi Valkeinen , Kevin Hilman , Laurent Pinchart References: <1476721850-454-1-git-send-email-bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> <2278105.geKhb8xoNC@avalon> <7h8ttj6jqo.fsf@baylibre.com> <1867292.F3aGJTmS2t@avalon> <7h8tti6c95.fsf@baylibre.com> CC: Bartosz Golaszewski , Michael Turquette , Rob Herring , Frank Rowand , Mark Rutland , Peter Ujfalusi , Russell King , LKML , arm-soc , linux-drm , linux-devicetree , Jyri Sarha , David Airlie , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson From: Sekhar Nori Message-ID: <278cac52-020f-da2f-54d7-e68d3b71eb65@ti.com> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:23:39 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 17 On Friday 21 October 2016 02:55 PM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > On 20/10/16 22:39, Kevin Hilman wrote: > >> However, after our discussion on IRC, we'll respin this without the DT >> bindings at all. Next version will just use static configuration data >> in the drivers/bus driver based on SoC compatible string, since for the >> use-cases I'm aware of, the settings are boot-time only. > > If it's static boot time config, why not do it in the u-boot? Hardware initialization dependencies with boot-loader are tough to track and debug. The bootloader thats currently ships with the board may not have these settings, for example. This forces everyone to update their bootloader when shifting to mainline kernel. Thanks, Sekhar