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

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Message-ID: <500db9de-6113-4e73-ba92-6e52ea292b32@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 12:11:43 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Elinor Montmasson <elinor.montmasson@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	shengjiu wang <shengjiu.wang@...il.com>,
	Xiubo Lee <Xiubo.Lee@...il.com>, Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
	Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
	linux-sound <linux-sound@...r.kernel.org>,
	devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	alsa-devel <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 9/9] ASoC: dt-bindings: fsl-asoc-card: add compatible
 for generic codec

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

> > 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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