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

[Shawn Guo]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 02:12:53AM +0000, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
> Shawn Guo wrote:
> > Since I was asked by Mark to use new binding for new machine driver,
> > I would drop this patch and keep PowerPC machine drivers working with
> > /model property.
> 
> I think Mark is only concerned with not breaking compatibility with 
> existing device trees.  Both the P1022 and MPC8610 device trees have had 
> this compatible property.
> 
Are you saying that both older and new P1022 device trees have
compatible = "fsl,P1022DS", so that changing to check /compatible
could save the check on /model of P1022 device tree?  Otherwise,
the check between "fsl,P1022" and "fsl,P1022DS" can not be saved.

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Regards,
Shawn