Revisited, audio codec device tree entries.

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Tue Nov 20 05:55:14 EST 2007


On 11/19/07, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:31:57PM +0000, Matt Sealey wrote:
> > I never said drivers should depend on it but why do you want to name
> > an i2s bus as "i2s" or the i2c bus as "i2c"?
>
> Because that's what they are?
>
> > There are far, far more descriptive names that can be used. i2s is
> > basically audio, so why not "audio" or "sound" or "headphone"?
>
> For i2s, that may be reasonable, but i2c can have several devices under it.
>
> > Why is gpt a "gpt" and not a "timer", it defeats the whole object
> > of having a name for it. Since drivers never switch on it, why not
> > give them real names?
>
> That one *should* be timer.  Ask whoever did the device tree for it. :-P

That one's my fault.

sorry.

g.

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