[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: add platform registration for ALSA SoC drivers

[Grant Likely]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com> wrote:
> An upcoming change in the architecture of ALSA SoC (ASoC) will require the
> MPC8610 HPCD's ASoC fabric driver to register as a standard platform driver.
> Therefore, we need to call platform_device_register_simple() from the board's
> platform code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com>
> ---
>
> Kumar, the ASoC mainters are willing to pick up this patch, but they want an
> ACK from you first.  Or, you could pick it up, since by itself it's harmless.
>
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/mpc8610_hpcd.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/mpc8610_hpcd.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/mpc8610_hpcd.c
> index 5abe137..66afff3 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/mpc8610_hpcd.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/mpc8610_hpcd.c
> @@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ static int __init mpc8610_declare_of_platform_devices(void)
>        /* Without this call, the SSI device driver won't get probed. */
>        of_platform_bus_probe(NULL, mpc8610_ids, NULL);
>
> +       /* Register the platform device for the ASoC fabric driver */
> +       platform_device_register_simple("snd-soc-mpc8610-hpcd", 0, NULL, 0);
> +

Since this is a temporary measure, this device registration is
probably best put into the .probe() hook of the i2s driver.  That will
keep everything contained in the same place until we can hammer out a
reasonable binding.

g.