[PATCH v5 2/2] dt-bindings: mediatek: mt6359: add codec document

Tzung-Bi Shih tzungbi at google.com
Wed Aug 19 11:42:27 EDT 2020


On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 6:38 PM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 04:11:03PM +0800, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
> > I misunderstood.  It still needs the compatible string to match the
> > corresponding driver.
>
> No, it doesn't.  The MFD should be registering the platform device.

I guess I see.  It lists the mfd_cell when calling
devm_mfd_add_devices() in drivers/mfd/mt6397-core.c.  It falls back to
use driver name and device name to match.  As long as the name
provided in mfd_cell matches the platform driver name, it works.

But I found struct mfd_cell also contains member .of_compatible.  What
is the difference if we use compatible string (as is) for this device
instead of falling back to use device name to match?



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