Re: Revisited, audio codec device tree entries.

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

On 11/18/07, Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > David Gibson
> > made a proposal that a fabric node wrap the codec node. That doesn't
> > work very well with the i2c bus where the bus code is walking down the
> > nodes and triggering the instantiation of the i2c drivers.
>
> Yeah, doesn't work at all.
>
> > But what about putting the fabric node inside the codec node?
>
> _Which_ codec node?  Having more than one isn't uncommon at all.

In all of them. Fabric can probably be split into pieces that
corresponds to the codec.

> There is no way you can describe this fabric stuff in a generic way in
> the device tree.  Just hardcode it in your platform support code; if
> the platform code supports several variant boards, _it_ can probe that
> from the device tree (in whatever way works for that platform).

The codec-fabric node was just being used to trigger the loading of
the platform specific driver.

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> Segher
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