[alsa-devel] [PATCH v1] ASoC: rt5677: Convert I2C driver to ->probe_new()

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 06:09:52PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 15:21 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > I have no idea why you say the ASoC machine drivers would prevent
> > someone adding a platform based user,

> For example, looking into
>  sound/soc/mediatek/mt8173/mt8173-rt5650-rt5676.c
> I see a direct use of codec driver without any platform driver
> involvement.

> Is it exception from the rule, or a common use?

That's an entirely standard driver using normally registered devices?

> >  obviously ASoC predates the use of
> > both ACPI and DT quite considerably.

> Yep, the current users of driver in question either DT or ACPI, would it
> be pure platform in the future?

It could be potentially (well, I2C but registered using a board file).
Most architectures still use board files and neither ACPI nor DT has a
sensible story for instantiating plugin modules yet.
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