Audio codec device tree entries

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:28:42AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com> wrote:
> > Jon Smirl wrote:
[snip]
> > My vote is for this version.  In fact, I think it *has* to be this way.  If
> > you're using a CS4270 codec (as I am), the I2C interface is *optional*.  So I
> > want the I2S node to point to the I2C node if it exists.
> 
> It doesn't have to be this way.  If the codec does not have a control
> interface, then it can happily be a child of the i2s node.  But if it
> *does*; don't break convention by separating it from it's control
> interface.
> 
> I strongly recommend following the lead of ethernet phys and mdio
> busses here.

Yes.  Devices should appear on the bus from which they're addressable,
that is from the control interface in this case.  Sometimes different
things need to be done for bus-bridges which are configured from a
different bus than the one they bridge, but this is not such a
situation.

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