[alsa-devel] [PATCH 3/3] ASoC: rt5645: add device tree support

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 5/8/15 11:46 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 08:30:52AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>
>> Agree, but there wasn't a clear message provided to the readers of this
>> mailing list. A 'should' is a recommendation that provides no real incentive
>> to move to the new gpiod framework. The message would be clearer if
>> maintainers stated that new contributions using of_get_named_gpio() will no
>> longer be merged in the mainline (maybe after a specific milestone). That
>> would set the direction for everyone.
>
> That's what's been happening...

We are in agreement. I wasn't trying to argue but make sure everyone 
noticed this change. I saw a commit with of_get_named_gpio in sound/soc 
as recent as December 30, 2014 and we talked to 3rd parties unaware of 
this change. Now they are :-)