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SubjectRe: [PATCHv2] Input: omap4-keypad: Add pinctrl support
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:51:11PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Mark Brown

> > More seriously the amount of time we seem to have been spending recently
> > on changes which end up requiring us to go through essentially every
> > driver and add code to them (often several times) doesn't seem like
> > we're doing a good job here.

> If this is your main concern you should be made aware that there
> are people out there planning to supplant the existing DT probe paths
> that are now being added to each and every ARM-related driver
> with an ACPI probe path as ARM servers come into the picture.

That's different as we're adding support for a new external interface
which will need per device configuration parsing rather than
reorganising things within the kernel; I'd expect it won't supplant DT
but rather sit alongside it as it's more a requirement for the server
market than for the embedded market.
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