Re: [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: sound: sun4i-spdif: Add Allwinner H6 compatible

[Maxime Ripard]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 06:30:10PM +0200, Clément Péron wrote:
> > > I didn't change the driver and the SPDIF is working what's irrelevant
> > > in declaring the driver as compatible ?
> >
> > It's working by accident.
> >
> > This won't work for example:
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/sound/soc/sunxi/sun4i-spdif.c#L181
> >
> > > If some feature are missing they can be introduce later as there is a
> > > special binding for H6 no ?
> >
> > Again, that's irrelevant. The only question you need to ask yourself
> > is whether, if you take an imaginary source code that would support
> > all the H3 SPDIF features and run it on an H6, it works just as well.
> >
> > The examples above that it's not the case, so you can't claim that the
> > device is compatible.
>
> Is it ok if I fix the TX Fifo flush bit and remove the compatible with H3 ?
> (Looking at the driver this is the only bit used that is incompatible with H6)

Sure

> Or should I send a new driver with the correct mapping ?

No, we definitely don't want to duplicate a driver just for a single
bit offset that changes.

Maxime

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