Re: ALSA SoC device tree bindings

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On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 08:30:13PM +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
>
>> At this stage, we're just looking at how to structure device in the device
>> tree. The bindings for specific devices will come as required (ie, as we add
>> device tree support for them).
>
> Actually, re-reading the page I'm not sure it really captures my
> understanding of the discussion (and all the previous discussions we've
> had on the lists and so on) at all.  Reading the page the idea that a
> machine specific driver is normal and expected doesn't come over at all
> well, especially in the design section which doesn't make any mention at
> all of machine specific drivers.

Do we really want to call them machine drivers? Machine drivers
already exist in the basic non-audio platform code. Calling the audio
drivers machine drivers overloads the term. In the Apple audio code
they are called fabric drivers.


> As I keep saying the main thing I'm looking for from any device tree
> binding is something that I can point people at so we don't need to go
> through the rehashings of this subject which come up every time someone
> decides they want to use device trees.
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