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From: Stephen Warren <swarren-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2 v3] ASoC: simple-card: add Device Tree support
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:17:20 -0700
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On 01/31/2013 10:11 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:09:37AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 01/30/2013 06:35 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> I suggested this because it seemed more legible to repeat the 
>>> properties by having a named structure for each property
>>> rather than by repeating them all with slightly different
>>> names.
> 
>> So the only need to repeat them at all was if the two DAIs
>> needed different values for some of the properties rather than
>> being identical (e.g. signal polarity) or precise inversions
>> (e.g. which end is master), right?
> 
> There's more attributes that we might want to configure on the
> devices than just the actual DAI link.  Clocks for example.

Sure, but this binding is *simple*-audio, right. If the intent is to
create some more general/all-encompassing binding structure, I'd want
to think about it and review it in a different way.