From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexandre Belloni Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] RTC: ds1307: Add DS1341 specific power-saving options Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:38:36 +0200 Message-ID: <20160720153836.GS7132@piout.net> References: <1465970379-14703-4-git-send-email-andrew.smirnov@gmail.com> <20160619142934.GA8522@rob-hp-laptop> <20160621204904.GA9779@rob-hp-laptop> <20160621210739.GY5809@piout.net> <20160719224728.GP7132@piout.net> <20160720090220.GQ7132@piout.net> Reply-To: rtc-linux-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Sender: rtc-linux-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: , List-Unsubscribe: , To: Andrey Smirnov Cc: Rob Herring , rtc-linux-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org, Alessandro Zummo , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 20/07/2016 at 07:36:55 -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote : > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Alexandre Belloni > wrote: > > On 19/07/2016 at 16:56:56 -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote : > >> >> I don't see any value in doing that, could you give me a realistic > >> >> example of a scenario in which a user would want to spend some of > >> >> uptime with RTC oscillator fault detection/glitch filtering disabled > >> >> and then enable it? > >> >> > >> > > >> > Well, the issue is not being dynamic, it is differentiating between > >> > hardware description and user configuration. Configuration must not be in > >> > DT. > >> > >> Why? And I don't mean in a generic sense, but in this particular case. > >> What is gained by not having this bit of configuration, whose only > >> consumer is the driver, in the device tree file? > >> > > > > Because configuration doesn't belong to DT. DT is about hardware > > description, not configuration. > > That doesn't really answer my question. You just re-iterating some > maxim without explaining what is the point behind applying it. > Well, that is from the device tree specification and how the device tree maintainers want it... -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to "rtc-linux". Membership options at http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux . Please read http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux/web/checklist before submitting a driver. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rtc-linux" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rtc-linux+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.