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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/19] ASoC: tlv320aic31xx: Remove platform data
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From: "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 11:48:43 -0600
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On 12/06/2017 11:30 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 10:19:28AM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> On 12/06/2017 06:45 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> Then if you want to upstream the driver you'll have to add the platform
>>> data support again.  Like I say not all architectures have anything
>>> other than board files.
> 
>> Then they can try, but they will rightfully get nack'd and told to stop
>> using board files and use DT/ACPI. Most upstream architectures don't use
>> board files anymore anyway, so I doubt this will ever happen.
> 
> No.  To repeat, not all architectures use DT or ACPI.  Expecting someone
> to impelement DT or ACPI support for an entire architecture and try to
> bring the ecosystem for that architecture along in order to add machine
> support is obviously totally unreasonable.
> 

That would be unreasonable I agree, but it's also completely
hypothetical, as again, there are no in-tree users and most platforms
are DT/ACPI, so the odds of anyone needing it are next to nothing.