Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] dt-bindings: mediatek: mt6359: add codec document

From: Tzung-Bi Shih
Date: Wed Aug 19 2020 - 11:42:49 EST


On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 6:38 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 04:11:03PM +0800, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
> > I misunderstood. It still needs the compatible string to match the
> > corresponding driver.
>
> No, it doesn't. The MFD should be registering the platform device.

I guess I see. It lists the mfd_cell when calling
devm_mfd_add_devices() in drivers/mfd/mt6397-core.c. It falls back to
use driver name and device name to match. As long as the name
provided in mfd_cell matches the platform driver name, it works.

But I found struct mfd_cell also contains member .of_compatible. What
is the difference if we use compatible string (as is) for this device
instead of falling back to use device name to match?