linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 09/19] ASoC: tlv320aic31xx: Remove platform data

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Message-ID: <20171201132606.vyw7wthmql5trkwq@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 1 Dec 2017 13:26:06 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Benoît Cousson <bcousson@...libre.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/19] ASoC: tlv320aic31xx: Remove platform data

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 03:32:50PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> Platform data is not used by anyone (at least in upstream) so
> drop this data and switch to using fwnode(DT/ACPI) only.

The advantage being...?  Not all architectures use DT or ACPI so it's
not clear that this is a step forwards in itself.

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