Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add software node support to regulator framework

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Jul 13 2021 - 14:25:23 EST


On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 07:06:20PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 05:02:59PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > To make sure I understand you correctly, do you advocate for suppressing
> > > registration of the I2C devices from ACPI and instantiate them from
> > > board code instead, or to somehow supplement the I2C device with
> > > board-specific data ?

> > No, to repeat yet again that is what I think is a terrible idea.

> Which of those two ? :-)

Suppressing the registration data. Frankly the way that ACPI systems
rely so extensively on OS provided fixups on non-server systems while
still being deployed routinely there is also a substantial failure, but
it's not quite so bad.

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