On Monday 10 November 2014 10:05:26 Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:39:57 +0100
> Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 09 November 2014 12:22:21 Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> > > -- sound-dai : phandle and port of CPU/CODEC
> > > +either
> > > + - sound-dai : phandle and port of CPU/CODEC
> > > +or
> > > + - sound-dais : list of phandle and port of
> > > CODECs
> >
> > Is it really necessary to change the property name here? I woudl think
> > that you can make it all work more consistently with just the existing
> > 'sound-dai' property, just extend it to allow multiple codecs
>
> This was an idea from Benoit Cousson:
>
> "Something like that:
>
> sound-dais = <&spdif_codec 1>, <&hdmi 0>;
>
> That being said, it will require changing the name with a plural form,"
>
> As I coded it, both names are accepted for a single or many codecs.
I don't see a strong reason for coming up with a plural form. If you really
have to, then please list the old form as a deprecated alias and make the
document talk about "sound-dais" as the preferred form independent of the
number of arguments.
Arnd
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