Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 4/5] arch/powerpc/boot/dts pcm030 add mpc5200-soc-audio node

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:14:48PM -0400, Eric Millbrandt wrote:

• analog@0 {
  

• 	stream-name = "AC97 Analog";
  

• 	codec-name = "wm9712-codec.0";
  

This name is fairly clearly an internal implementation detail of how Linux does audio drivers, we shouldn't be using it in device tree bindings. We should instead be doing something like referencing a device tree node for the CODEC. Look at how drivers like the nVidia Tegra ones handle this, though for AC'97 we should really be able to figure out a standard hookup like this automatically at runtime, it's all enumerable.