linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init

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Message-ID: <4E9F9892.9070007@ti.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:12:10 +0530
From:	Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
CC:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>, patches@...aro.org,
	tony@...mide.com, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, grant.likely@...retlab.ca,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, lrg@...com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extract regulator_init_data

On Wednesday 19 October 2011 08:40 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> The problem is that the DT is supposed to be separate to the kernel and
> the decisions can depend on what the kernel is currently capable of.
> When the data is embedded in the kernel it's not an issue as the data is
> attached to the rest of the code, when the data becomes detatched from
> the kernel it becomes an issue.

completely agreed.

>
> I don't see any issue with leaving some things out of the DT bindings;
> you were the one raising that as a concern.

The problem is, that there doesn't seem to be a clean way to embed
*board data* into the kernel with DT, if left out of the DT bindings.
There is the auxdata way of still attaching platform_data, but that I
thought was a stopgap for just handling function pointers.
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