Re: [PATCH v4 16/16] ACPI / DSD: Document references, ports and endpoints

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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/14/17 10:08, Sakari Ailus wrote:
>> How about this instead:
>>
>> All port nodes are located under the device's "_DSD" node in the
>> hierarchical data extension tree. The property extension related to
>> each port node must contain the key "port" and an integer value which
>> is the number of the port.
>
> So with matching strings instead of indices, this will change, too...

It doesn't have to AFAICS, but the number is just redundant IMO.  You
only need a boolean property saying "this is a port", so you know that
you should expect a list of endpoints in that object.

Thanks,
Rafael
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