Subject: [PATCH 6/6] ASoC: fsl: check property 'compatible' for the machine name

From: [email-masked] (Tabi Timur-B04825)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:03:56 +0000

Mark Brown wrote:

> Nobody's suggesting that they don't get merged if they really are the
> same IP and can use the same code.  The device tree bindings are (and
> should be) a really small proportion of the code.

My understanding is that they really are the same exact IP.

> The CODEC binding for the machine driver is part of the SSI binding, and
> a mandatory one at that.  It looks like the code should be refactored to
> register the SSI unconditionally

Ok.

> and then optionally also register a
> machine driver if there's a CODEC property present.

Ah, that's not a bad idea.  I like that.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale