Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2014 11:28:46 +0200 | From | Jean-Francois Moine <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] drm/i2c:tda998x: Use the HDMI audio CODEC |
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:25:40 +0100 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> > + request_module("snd-soc-hdmi-codec"); > > + pdev = platform_device_register_resndata(&priv->hdmi->dev, > > + "hdmi-audio-codec", > > + PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE, > > + NULL, 0, > > + &tda998x_hdmi_data, > > + sizeof tda998x_hdmi_data); > > Why is this request_module() needed? If there is a good reason for it > we should have some documentation.
The reason is simple: as the HDMI CODEC is not declared in the DT, the associated module must be loaded in memory.
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