Re: [PATCH v1 28/43] input: keypad: ep93xx: add DT support for Cirrus EP93xx

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Jun 05 2023 - 07:26:34 EST


On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 10:14:52PM +0300, Nikita Shubin wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 19:54 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 08:45:33AM +0300, Nikita Shubin wrote:

...

> > > +static int ep93xx_keypad_flags;
> > > +module_param(ep93xx_keypad_flags, int, 0);
> > > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ep93xx_keypad_flags, "EP93XX keypad flags.");
> >
> > Why? This pretty much looks like missing DT description.
>
> From other patches from this series, i learned NOT to add new DT
> entities, not even with vendor prefix, no way!
>
> May be i missing something of course...

We do not add module parameters to a new code either. So this will be
a dead end.

...

> Was never used in different ways than initializing all to zeroes
> including flags since 2.6 (didn't look before through), so i would
> prefer to drop this completely than moving it into device tree.

This sounds the best!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko