Re: [PATCH v11 2/3] ASoC: qcom: dt-bindings: Add sc7180 machine bindings

From: Srinivas Kandagatla
Date: Tue Oct 13 2020 - 06:36:39 EST


Hi Cheng,

Sorry for such late review w.r.t compatibles,

On 14/09/2020 09:06, Cheng-Yi Chiang wrote:
+---
+$id:http://devicetree.org/schemas/sound/qcom,sc7180.yaml#
+$schema:http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: Qualcomm Technologies Inc. SC7180 ASoC sound card driver
+
+maintainers:
+ - Rohit kumar<rohitkr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+ - Cheng-Yi Chiang<cychiang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
+
+description:
+ This binding describes the SC7180 sound card which uses LPASS for audio.
+
+properties:
+ compatible:
+ const: qcom,sc7180-sndcard-rt5682-m98357-1mic

This information can come from the dai link description itself, why should compatible string have this information?

Can't we have better compatible string with actual board name or use the same compatible name as used by other boards?

Can you give us some details on the advantages of doing this way?

Or am I missing something?

AFAIU, you should add proper board name / model name to the compatible string rather than describe how its connected. Connection is already part of dai link definition.

On the other hand model property can include variant information.
This can also be used to set card long name which will help in UCM2.

The reason I had to bring this up is because the use-space (ucm in this case) will not be in a position to differentiate between different board variants to select correct mixer controls, so its going to be a pain!


Thanks,
srini