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

[Mark Brown]

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.
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