Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC drivers for the Freescale MPC8610 SoC

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:18:31 -0600

Grant Likely wrote:
> On 1/3/08, Scott Wood <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> I'd just link in both directions, and let software follow it in
>> whichever direction it prefers.
> 
> Gah!  Don't do that!  Then you need to maintain both directions in the
> dts file.  Software is good at generating reverse mappings.

Software is, however, lousy at correctly wading through 
poorly-structured data (which device trees are full of) to figure out 
how to locate the link it wants to follow backwards.

-Scott