Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extractregulator_init_data

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 07:58:37PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:

> I understand that ideally device tree is supposed to describe pure
> hardware configurations.  But practically, when migrating a driver
> to device tree probe, we are trying to move the configurations
> described by platform_data into device tree to save the use of
> platform_data for device tree probe.  Then some of the configuration
> may not be so purely hardware related.  But I do not see this is a
> critical problem.

It's not just Linux-specific stuff, some of this is even specific to
what current Linux drivers can do - updating the kernel could mean a
different set of constraints.
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