[PATCH v2] ASoC: omap: convert per-board modules to platform drivers

On Friday 09 September 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

That's just twisted and utterly insane - adding more code for precisely
zero benefit what so ever.  Think about it - the device tree is already
creating platform devices for entries in the device tree file.  What's
the point of having this special ASoC code look up the platform compatible
property in a table of strings to find a different string to manually
create a device with.  Why not just add the bloody device to the DT
file in the first place?  That's partly what DT is there for - to create
platform specific struct devices.

Exactly. No driver or (worse) user program should ever need to look at
the top-level compatible property. When you want information about a
localized part of the system (e.g. the ASoC components), you should
look up the information for that component.

	Arnd