[alsa-devel] [RFC] ASoC: core: Allow DAI links to be specified by using ACPI names

[Jarkko Nikula]

On 10/03/2013 07:19 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 05:22:45PM +0300, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
>> On 10/03/2013 04:37 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> This is making me wonder if we shouldn't be taking the stable names we
>>> get from ACPI as the dev_name() instead of our internal ones on ACPI
>>> systems (and possibly something similar on DT) rather than adding custom
>>> code like this.
>> This is actually somewhat confusing issue. I think it's relatively
>> easy to switch using ACPI names within ASoC core (by modifying
>> fmt_single_name or something like that).
>> Problem is that for ACPI enumerated client devices the dev_name(dev)
>> still comes from those subsystems as before. So for instance dev_
>> prints in codec driver or ASoC core keeps printing "rt5640 0-001c:"
>> as before and I personally find it a bit more confusing if internal
>> ASoC names don't match as easily with dev_ prints.
> You're misreading my suggestion.  What I'm saying is that it seems like
> it might be useful to have dev_name() return the ACPI name - this would
> mean that everything, including all the dev_ prints, would use the same
> name which would then become stable and tied to hardware.
I see. Indeed, this sounds a better idea. At quick look is even more simple.

-- 
Jarkko