Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Device tree support for TWL regulators

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 03:21:26PM +0100, Cousson, Benoit wrote:

Mmm, it is written in Rajendra's changelog:

"-2- All common regulator nodes for twl4030 and twl6030 are
now defined in the twl4030.dtsi and twl6030.dtsi instead of

Oh, it's buried at the end of a rather verbose inter-patch changelog,
that's not exactly visible :(

The good point is that a missing or broken DTS will indeed not break
the build, it will just not boot the platform properly. But that
still an important dependency to me.

If adding device tree support breaks existing platforms something is
going wrong, while you're pulling things together device tree might not
work until all the support makes it in but the old non-DT code should
continue to function.

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There's also more than that, there's also at least Tero submitting some
other stuff separately (and his stuff won't play with DT...) and I think
Peter also.  It really fees like there's a bunch of people working on
different things without talking to each other here.

That's the problem with MFD devices that are doing everything from
audio to power including the coffee...

Well, in this case everyone's only working on the regulator stuff, or at
least only overlapping on that.

The twl drivers aren't helping here - the structure is *very* non-standard
and seems to make updates more fiddly than they should be as you're not
just adding stuff to tables.  Every update seems to need explicit code
and per-change data adding which is making life harder.  If things
looked more standard from a code point of view it'd probably reduce the
pain a lot.