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

[Grant Likely]

On 1/2/08, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/2/08, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> > > Alternatively, the best place for this device would be on the ASOC
> > > bus, but the ASOC bus hasn't been created when the platform code runs.
> > > Maybe I can figure out a place in the platform code to create this
> > > device after the ASOC driver has loaded and created the bus. Does the
> > > platform code get control back after loading all of the device
> > > drivers?
> >
> > Yes, but it requires the core ASoC code to not be a module.  Then you
> > can use machine_device_initcall() to register the device at a later
> > time.
>
> How about this for a simpler solution? My mpc5200-psc-ac97 and
> mpc5200-psc-i2c drivers can create a device on the ASOC bus named
> after the first entry in the compatible field of the root node. That
> will cause the correct driver to get activated. I'm in the process of
> making ASOC drivers dynamically loadable like the i2c ones.

I little icky, but it doesn't sound dangerous (as in shouldn't cause
any name conflicts).  That may be the best we can do for the time
being.  But I don't think it is a good idea for the long term.

Cheers,
g.

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