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

[Jarkko Nikula]

On 10/28/2013 05:06 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:53:14AM +0000, Liam Girdwood wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 13:42 +0300, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
>>> Yes, I don't see any urgent reason to push this hack in. Better to check
>>> dev_name change first. What I'm going to propose there is "spix.y" to
>>> "spi-INTABCD:xy" and "x-00yz" to "i2c-INTABCD:xy"
>> We probably need to be able to match on ACPI name alone as some BIOS
>> settings can change the I2C bus number and break the name match used at
>> bind time. e.g. on Haswell the codec can either be on I2C bus 0 or 7.
> Indeed.  The way I initially read the suggestion above the idea was to
> replace the bus number with the ACPI name for the device which seemed
> sensible but now I reread the bus number is still there.
Sorry, my textual proposal above was confusing and should have used 
different variables for ACPI name. What I meant was "spix.y" -> 
"spi-INTABCD:ij" and "x-00yz" to "i2c-INTABCD:ij" where "INTABCD:ij" was 
the ACPI device name which contains the device instance in "ij".

-- 
Jarkko