On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 12:11 +0000, Grant Likely wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Ben Zhang <be...@chromium.org> wrote: > > The rt5677 codec driver looks for ACPI device ID "RT5677CE", > > which is specified in coreboot. This patch allows platform > > data to be obtained via ACPI > > > > Signed-off-by: Ben Zhang <be...@chromium.org> > > This looks like an ideal time to talk about shared DT and ACPI driver > bindings. This driver /already/ has a firmware binding. It is > documented in the kernel under > Documentation/bindings/sound/rt5677.txt. We now have a standard method > for sharing bindings between DT and ACPI in the _DSD method[1]. > Support for DSD is in linux-next and getting merged into v3.19. This > is exactly the case that _DSD should be used for passing additional > data to the driver, and it should use the existing binding. > > [1] > http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/_DSD-device-properties-UUID.pdf > > For a long time we've had the rule on DT that new bindings must be > documented before we merge a patch. That rule I think has been a good > one, even if it is a little chaoitc. I think when it comes to ACPI > drivers that we should be requiring the same: Document the binding, > either in the kernel as a DT binding, or point to somewhere else that > has the binding documented. > > Also, since this patch is targeted at v3.19 or later, the > device-properties API should be used. Don't create something custom. >
My sentiments exactly, there would be little point having bespoke device properties for every single device. Btw, we also need to align here with Windows too ! Liam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/