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

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 08:02:39PM +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> 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.

You're confusing implementation details with device tree specification
here.  We can easily handle loading a subdriver without having to put
anything in the device tree, just create a platform device like we do
with MFDs.
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