[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] ACPI / utils: Introduce acpi_dev_get_dev_name()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 13:34 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 13:06 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> > > <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> > "Subset of Intel ASoC drivers is an existing user of this API when
> > they
> > need to find an actual instance of the codec device based on its
> > ACPI
> > HID."
> 
> And why do they need the name (and not something else)?

I don't know the guts of Intel ASoC implementation, so, can't answer
this without investigation.

Pierre, can you elaborate this piece?

> > So, acpi_dev_get_name() then?
> 
> It would be somewhat clearer to call it
> acpi_dev_get_first_match_name() IMO.
> 
> Otherwise it may not be clear what name this is going to return.

Works for me.


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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
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