Re: Audio codec device tree entries

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 10/24/07, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > Why are you using a vendor named directory? I don't believe vendor
> > named directories are used anywhere in the kernel. The directories are
> > always named after the platform or architecture. Vendor directories
> > end up in a big mess if Freescale decides to sell a CPU to someone
> > else.
>
> Two reasons:
>
> 1) The sound/soc directory already has names like "at91" and "pxa", so I thought
> "fsl" is appropriate.

pxa is the processor family. Intel sold the pxa cpus to Marvell six months ago.

>
> 2) There may not be any directories named "fsl", but there are plenty of files
> with that name:
>
> ./arch/powerpc/boot/fsl-soc.c
> ./arch/powerpc/boot/fsl-soc.h
> ./arch/powerpc/boot/fsl-soc.o
> ./arch/powerpc/mm/fsl_booke_mmu.c
> ./arch/powerpc/platforms/fsl_uli1575.c
> ./arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c
> ./arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.h
> ./arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.c
> ./arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.h
> ./arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.o
> ./arch/ppc/mm/fsl_booke_mmu.c
> ./drivers/usb/gadget/fsl_usb2_udc.c
> ./drivers/usb/gadget/fsl_usb2_udc.h
> ./include/linux/fsl_devices.h
> ./include/config/fsl
>
> Having said all that, if you really think sound/soc/powerpc is better than
> sound/soc/fsl, I won't complain.
>
>


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Jon Smirl
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