From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
liam.girdwood@wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] ALSA SoC: Add OpenFirmware helper for matching bus and codec drivers
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:53:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487BA0AF.10803@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080714184929.GJ25448@sirena.org.uk>
Mark Brown wrote:
>> The only problem with this is that the OF probing code in the kernel binds
>> drivers to device tree nodes. So when a driver claims a node, no other driver
>> will be probed with it.
>
>> So we can't have generic nodes that classify the motherboard and just let
>> everyone get probed on it.
>
> My suggestion is that you change this for the root node.
That's an interesting idea.
> It's already
> got the information required in there, it's just there's no way to use
> it to load modules at the minute.
Correct.
> You could presumably read the
> information out of the device tree using existing APIs to check you're
> running on the right board once code is loaded?
Yes. The driver <-> node binding is only for probing. Any driver can scan the
entire tree at any time.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-12 8:39 [PATCH v2 1/3] ALSA SoC: Add OpenFirmware helper for matching bus and codec drivers Grant Likely
2008-07-12 8:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] ALSA SoC: Add mpc5200-psc I2S driver Grant Likely
2008-07-14 12:10 ` [alsa-devel] " Mark Brown
2008-07-12 8:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ALSA SoC: Add Texas Instruments TLV320AIC26 codec driver Grant Likely
2008-07-12 18:10 ` [alsa-devel] " Mark Brown
2008-07-12 18:14 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-14 11:45 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-18 6:29 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-18 10:39 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-15 7:57 ` dinesh
2008-07-15 10:33 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-15 12:38 ` dinesh
2008-07-15 12:46 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-16 9:05 ` WRITING AN SOC DRIVER WITHOUT DMA dinesh
2008-07-16 10:07 ` [alsa-devel] " Nobin Mathew
2008-07-16 10:13 ` dinesh
2008-07-17 6:03 ` dinesh
2008-07-17 10:56 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-17 11:26 ` Nobin Mathew
2008-07-17 12:05 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-17 16:02 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ALSA SoC: Add Texas Instruments TLV320AIC26 codec driver Timur Tabi
2008-07-14 13:49 ` [alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] ALSA SoC: Add OpenFirmware helper for matching bus and codec drivers Mark Brown
2008-07-14 14:13 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-14 15:05 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-14 16:14 ` Timur Tabi
2008-07-14 16:27 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-14 16:53 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-14 17:21 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-14 18:36 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-14 18:40 ` Timur Tabi
2008-07-14 18:49 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-14 18:53 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2008-07-14 22:28 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-14 23:45 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-15 10:13 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-15 13:08 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-15 14:04 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-14 15:51 ` Timur Tabi
2008-07-14 17:06 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-14 17:16 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-14 17:22 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-18 7:17 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-18 10:00 ` Mark Brown
2008-07-18 14:59 ` Timur Tabi
2008-07-14 14:16 ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-07-14 17:11 ` Grant Likely
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