[alsa-devel] [PATCH v3 3/5] ASoC: tda998x: add DT documentation of the tda998x CODEC

Jean-Francois Moine moinejf at free.fr
Tue Feb 4 20:02:39 CET 2014


On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:12:13 +0000
Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 05:48:49PM +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> 
> > +	- compatible: must be "nxp,tda998x-codec".
> 
> It's not clear to me why there's a separate compatible here - as far as
> I can see this can only appear as part of one of these devices and
> there's no addressing or other information that'd account for chip
> variation so I'd not expect to need to bind this independently of the
> parent.

If there is no 'compatible', the CODEC module is not loaded, and, when
the module is in the core, no CODEC device can be created from the DT.

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