From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:52671 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754223Ab3HPWtw (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:49:52 -0400 Message-ID: <520EAC8D.5080802@wwwdotorg.org> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:49:49 -0600 From: Stephen Warren MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v4 1/2] ASoC: fsl: Add S/PDIF CPU DAI driver References: <1376308870-14232-1-git-send-email-b42378@freescale.com> <1376308870-14232-2-git-send-email-b42378@freescale.com> <20130814032658.GA16915@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> <20130814053016.GF31651@MrMyself> <20130814063931.GB31141@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> <20130814063444.GG31651@MrMyself> <20130814081445.GC31141@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> <520BA687.4030905@wwwdotorg.org> <20130815021823.GA1846@MrMyself> <20130815092428.GI16915@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> In-Reply-To: <20130815092428.GI16915@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: devicetree-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Shawn Guo Cc: Nicolin Chen , Fabio Estevam , broonie@kernel.org, lars@metafoo.de, p.zabel@pengutronix.de, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, timur@tabi.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com List-ID: On 08/15/2013 03:24 AM, Shawn Guo wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:18:23AM +0800, Nicolin Chen wrote: >> Hi Stephen, >> >> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:47:19AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: >>> If the clock source name list is different, then it needs a different >>> compatible value, so that each compatible value can specify which clock >>> names are required. >>> >>> Also, the compatible value itself should always include the exact HW >>> that's present (most specific HW version), as well as any other HW it's >>> compatible with. >> >> Thank you for the comments. Yes, I did so in v1-v3, but after rethinking >> about the situation (Actually both the HW version and the clock mux itself >> are same, just the clock sources connecting to the mux might be different), >> so I decided to do this by abstracting the driver from those source info >> and letting DT binding to pass such information. Because I think putting >> the clock sources into the driver differed by compatible value would make >> the driver more like SoC-specified, not the ideal way -- SoC-independent, >> since the clock sources are based on SoC design, not on itself. > > +1 > > It's pretty much the differences at SoC integration level not the IP > itself, and it just happens to be handled in a register of the IP. OK, if the difference are the sources of the clocks and not the set of clocks, then there's no issue. I can't remember what triggered my comments above, but obviously it wasn't clear that this was the case.