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On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:01:27AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:

> In my opinion the flags are just as much a hack as the pointer. In an ideal
> setup the component does not need to know what type it is. The reason why we
> need this in ASoC is because the framework has grown over time and we need
> to support legacy code.

Yes, the pointer is essentially already a flag - having a separate flag
really doesn't add a huge amount here.  What we need to do is get rid of
the need for the flag entirely.

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