[alsa-devel] [RESENDING] [PATCH 07/22] ASoC: Ux500: Initialise PCM from MSP probe rather than as a device

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:03:34AM +0200, Ola Lilja wrote:

> I still don't like this. It is the dai_link-struct that bothers me. We have
> "ux500-msp-i2s.1" as name of the platform AND the cpu_dai. The MSP I2S-block is
> not the platform and it is certainly not both platform and cpu-DAI at the same time.

> Mark: Did you have a solution for this? Couldn't we just put NULL on the
> platform_name instead?

No, having no platform driver means a direct device<->device link (like
baseband<->CODEC).  You could always register the platform with a -dma
added in the name or something, it'd be a bit more code but it'd work,
but the framework doesn't particularly care what you call these things.