Subject: [PATCH v3 09/11] ASoC: fsl: remove the fatal error checking on codec-handle

From: [email-masked] (Timur Tabi)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:50:21 -0600

Shawn Guo wrote:
> As Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/ssi.txt documented,
> codec-handle is an optional property, so missing it should not be a
> fatal error.]

It's optional in the sense that if your SSI is not connected to anything,
then you don't need to specify the codec handle.  If the SSI is connected
to a codec, then the SSI node needs to point to it.

> More importantly, the imx machine drivers to be added working with
> fsl_ssi will not have this property, as they use new ASoC machine
> driver binding mechanism.

I want to see that binding documented in Documentation/devicetree/bindings
first.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale