[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ASoC: generic simple sound card DT bindings

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 01:25:09PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> Mark has made the argument that (at least for CODEC analog pins) we can
> simply put those strings into the binding document, and make them as
> much a part of the binding as anything else. After all, (at least for
> CODEC analog pins) the values are simply the names of the pins on the
> package, as listed by the HW documentation itself.

> We could presumably do the same thing for DAIs; in DT, use a
> string-based DAI name derived directly from the HW documentation, rather
> than the current intra-ASoC DAI name strings.

> That said, I will admit that I personally don't really like the idea of
> using strings in bindings. That opinion certainly isn't universal though.

I think either works - with DAIs there is a tendency (though not
universal) for devices to just have numbered interfaces which makes the
numbers more natural.  I'm more concerned with the binding being legible
than with what ends up physically written in there, the original reason
for strings (apart from the fact that they're in the drivers already)
was that there was a lot of resistance in the DT community to symbolic
constants.  That would have lead to bindings which looked like line
noise.

> > The
> > binding also assumes that a CPU controller may have one DAI at most. In my
> > opinion this binding ought to use the upcoming of_xlate stuff for ASoC
> > components.

> That restriction seems reasonable for a *simple* DT sound binding. For
> more complex cards, one could presumably create more complex bindings,
> be they generic bindings that cover arbitrary more complex cases, or
> bindings for specific configurations that happen to include multiple DAIs.

The complexity there comes from the device that's being used rather than
the design of the sound card though - the fact that a SoC has an audio
block with many DAIs shouldn't prevent it using the simple bindings if
someone just hung a simple CODEC off one of the DAIs.
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