Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers core: allow id match override when manually binding driver

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 05:37:53PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> Can you, please, specify what problems this patch creates for other users
> and maintainability?

To repeat yet again a major design goal for DT is to describe the
hardware rather than implementation details of the software you plan to
run on the system.  Not doing this breaks upgrades or changes in our
ideas of how we control a given bit of hardware.

> Without stating the problems of this solution clearly or proposing alternate
> workable solution there is not much that can be done.

You are rejecting out of hand any suggestion that is not the one
solution you are demanding.

I'm done with this thread, please come back with new code that fits in
with the device model and device tree designs.

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