From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: add platform registration for ALSA SoC drivers Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:38:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20100427203821.GA15083@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <1272314980-23679-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <1272350168.24542.6.camel@pasglop> <1272355624.3204.52.camel@odin> <4BD6FA39.3030400@freescale.com> <1272381611.11000.39.camel@odin> <4BD70292.20001@freescale.com> <1272386470.11000.84.camel@odin> <4BD72DB0.20808@freescale.com> <4BD74351.9030704@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com (opensource.wolfsonmicro.com [80.75.67.52]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268B22413F for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:38:22 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BD74351.9030704@freescale.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Timur Tabi Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , kumar.gala@freescale.com, Grant Likely , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Liam Girdwood List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:04:33PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: [Reflowed into 80 columns] > At least, that's the way ASoC likes to operate. AsoC takes a fixed > string plus a unique integer. I could technically create a unique > string for each DMA device, and have the integer always be 0. This seems like the most direct approach to your problem - as with other subsystems the .id is there mostly to provide deduping when the string is always the same, if you can easily come up with sensible names you can just use those.