Hello, Le 16/05/2017 à 13:18, Mark Brown a écrit : > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 04:41:38PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: >> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 03:22:25PM +0200, Romain Perier wrote: >>> This commit adds a compatible string for everest,es8323. This is an >>> audio codec that is compatible with es8328 and can be found for example >>> on the Firefly-RK3288 board. >> If it is compatible with the es8328, then that should be a fallback and >> you don't need the driver change. > While people don't strictly need the driver change it doesn't do any > harm either and encourages people to get the information into the DT > that it's a different chip. Thinking about it it might be good to have > a way for something to validate if fallback compatibles are being listed > when they should - the drivers could provide the information fairly > easily I guess, or it could go into the binding docs once we have a > schema format. > > Even if it doesn't currently make a difference to software I'd rather > get the information in there for mixed signal devices like audio CODECs > - it's not that unknown to find later that supposedly register identical > chips have some differences in the analog which we want to care about. So, what should I do for this patch, finally ? fallback or driver change ? Thanks, Romain _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
