[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC drivers for the Freescale MPC8610 SoC

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Fri Jan 4 00:13:39 CET 2008


On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:18:31PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> Grant Likely wrote:

> > Gah!  Don't do that!  Then you need to maintain both directions in the
> > dts file.  Software is good at generating reverse mappings.

> Software is, however, lousy at correctly wading through 
> poorly-structured data (which device trees are full of) to figure out 
> how to locate the link it wants to follow backwards.

Thinking about that from an ASoC v2 perspective the approach that this
immediately suggests is to represent the links between the devices in
the device tree and then have those links reference the attached
devices.


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