Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 20:02:39 +0100
From: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] ASoC: tda998x: add DT documentation of the
 tda998x CODEC
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:12:13 +0000
Mark Brown <broonie@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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