Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 6/6] ASoC: fsl: check property 'compatible' for the machine name

Mark Brown wrote:

Nobody's suggesting that they don't get merged if they really are the same IP and can use the same code. The device tree bindings are (and should be) a really small proportion of the code.

My understanding is that they really are the same exact IP.

The CODEC binding for the machine driver is part of the SSI binding, and a mandatory one at that. It looks like the code should be refactored to register the SSI unconditionally

Ok.

and then optionally also register a machine driver if there's a CODEC property present.

Ah, that's not a bad idea. I like that.