Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: add platform registration for ALSA SoC drivers

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:18:15 +1000

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 13:15 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> 
> Can you not dynamically assign an id?  If alsa soc needs a unique id
> number, then just create a lookup function.  Something like
> of_asoc_phandle_to_codec_id() that will either return a previously
> assigned id, or will assign a new id.  You shouldn't ever need to add
> data to the tree at runtime. 

Numerical magic IDs are evil... why not a name ? Or it's existing alsa
breakage ? :-)

Cheers,
Ben.