Re: [PATCHv4 9/9] ASoC: dt-bindings: fsl-asoc-card: add compatible for generic codec

From: Mark Brown
Date: Fri May 17 2024 - 07:11:55 EST


On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 05:05:41AM -0400, Elinor Montmasson wrote:
> From: "Mark Brown" <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>

> > This description (and the code) don't feel like they're actually generic
> > - they're clearly specific to the bidrectional S/PDIF case. I'd expect
> > something called -generic to cope with single CODECs as well as double,
> > and not to have any constraints on what those are.

> I proposed, in an reply of the v3 patch series to Krzysztof Kozlowski,
> the compatible "fsl,imx-audio-no-codec" instead of "generic".
> Krzysztof thought it was too generic, but it would convey more clearly
> that it is for cases without codec driver.
> Would this other compatible string be more appropriate ?

No. There is very clearly a CODEC here, it physically exists, we can
point at it on the board and it has a software representation. Your
code is also very specific to the two CODEC case.

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