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

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:37:15PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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

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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

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.

Right, and this is the state of the art right now.  I can see why people
find this inelegant and want to come up with a way of automatically
generating all these different devices to describe boards especially
with the non-device tree systems, though, so if people want to work on
that stuff I don't see a problem with it.