Re: [PATCH 3/6] dt-bindings: sound: Add sound card bindings for Tesla FSD

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 08/11/2022 06:33, Padmanabhan Rajanbabu wrote:
>>>
>>> The actual reason for having a custom sound card driver lies in the
>>> fact that the Samsung i2s cpu dai requires configuration of some
>>> Samsung specific properties like rfs, bfs, codec clock direction and
>>> root clock source. We do not have flexibility of configuring the same
>>> in simple card driver (sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c) or audio graph
>>> card driver (sound/soc/generic/audio-graph-card.c). The binding has
>>> been added to support the custom sound card driver.
>>>
>>> I understand from your query that the newly added card has device tree
>>> nodes and properties which are used in simple card as well, but having
>>> a different or new prefixes. I believe to address that, we can
>>> restructure the string names to generic ones.
>>
>> You must use generic, existing properties where applicable.
> 
> Okay
> 
>>
>>> But I would like to understand, to reuse the simple card or audio
>>> graph card bindings, can we add secondary compatible strings in the
>>> simple card dt-binding for the custom sound card to probe ?
>>
>> If you see other vendor compatibles there, then yes... But there aren't any,
>> right?
> 
> Yes you are right, we don't see other vendor compatibles. But, am I allowed
> to add such secondary compatibles so that we can extend the simple card
> and its utilities to a large extent?
> 
> If no, then I believe we will need a separate binding to extend the generic
> properties.

If you have any custom properties, then yes. But you don't have.


Best regards,
Krzysztof