Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC drivers for the Freescale MPC8610 SoC

[Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:43:17PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> In other words, ...

> clock1 = <0, bb8000>
> clock2 = <1, 653230>
> clock23 = <0, ab2372>

Yes, something like that would cover it.  I'm not sure what is idiomatic
for the device tree.

> > and of course the ordering matters.  

> Ok, you got me there.  But then, isn't this just another example where the 
> device tree is incapable of describing a complex configuration, and so we need 
> a platform driver?

Yes, you could certainly do that - as you say, any device tree based
configuration would be optional so it's not a blocker if some things
aren't supported.

It'd be nice to have some idea of how to handle it should someone want
to do it but I wouldn't think it's essential.  The most common case
where specific ordering is required is that a PLL will need to have all
its inputs configured before the PLL is activated so it'd probably cover
a large proportion of cases to do that last.

> > Indeed.  Providing the device tree stuff doesn't get set in stone I'm
> > not sure we need to nail this down perfectly for ASoC v1 when we're
> > running into trouble working around it.

> I definitely agree with that.  I'll be the first to admit that this driver, 
> much like ASoC V1, is a prototype.

Yes, from an ASoC point of view the driver looks good as it is.  The
only discussion is about the PowerPC probing stuff.