linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] ASoC: atmel: machine driver for at91sam9x5-wm8731 boards

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Date:	Thu, 1 Aug 2013 10:53:38 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Bo Shen <voice.shen@...el.com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] ASoC: atmel: machine driver for at91sam9x5-wm8731
 boards

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:16:28PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 07/30/2013 04:58 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > You seem to be assuming that the strings are a bad thing.  I'm not
> > sure that this is the case modulo the tooling issues...

> I do tend to think that using strings is pretty evil...

Well, they do avoid the legibility issues that tend to plague device
tree - I don't really mind if they're in the property names (as with
regulator supply properties) or in the data but having something that is
directly legible is a substantial win.  Constants deal with this in the
source but they make runtime debugging more painful which isn't ideal.

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