Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] ASoC: Allow the DAPM routes to be stored in device tree

[Mark Brown <broonie-yzvPICuk2AATkU/dhu1WVueM+bqZidxxQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:52:00PM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote:

> I'd originally made this property specific to the Tegra+WM8903 machine
> driver, and you'd asked me to make it generic. Is there room to use
> the binding above for the Tegra+WM8903 machine driver only, in order
> to get the driver converted to DT, then define/implement something
> completely generic to replace it, i.e. the stuff below?

I was asking for the code to be generic, not the binding itself.  If the 
code could for example take a property name as an argument that'd allow 
other bindings to use the same code without having to have a generic 
binding which has bits which depend strongly on some Linux specific
machine driver.

> This would be a fair bit of work to implement, but what are your thoughts
> on the binding example below? It's very strongly based on ASoC, but since
> that's so strongly based on the HW, I think you can consider it a pure
> HW model rather than something derived from the way the driver works.

It's starting to get an idiomatic way of representing the external
nodes, HDA is probably a good source of inspiration :)  We do need to
have a think about the jacks, though - simple ones are fine but
multifinction is more fun.