linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] ASoC: core: allow a dt node to provide several components

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Date:   Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:18:30 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] ASoC: core: allow a dt node to provide several
 components

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 04:51:51PM +0100, Jerome Brunet wrote:

> At the moment, querying the dai_name will stop of the first component
> matching the dt node. This does not allow a device (single dt node) to
> provide several ASoC components which could then be used through DT.

> This change let the search go on if the xlate function of the component
> returns an error, giving the possibility to another component to match
> and return the dai_name.

My first question here would be why you'd want to do that rather than
combine everything into a single component since the hardware seems to
be doing that anyway.  Hopefully the rest of the series will answer this
but it'd be good in the changelog here.

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