diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom-audio-dev.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom-audio-dev.txt
index 102857a13a86..2a737bb69bc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom-audio-dev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom-audio-dev.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ Required properties:
 
  - qcom,msm-pcm-dsp-id : device node id
 
+   Optional properties
+
+      - qcom,avs-version:
+	This property can be used to specify the ADSP version/name.
+	Based on ADSP version, we decide if we have to use older
+	ADSP APIs or newer. Right now we are using "AVS 2.7" for
+	8996 purpose.If the ADSP version is anything other than this
+	we use new ADSP APIs.
+
 * msm-pcm-low-latency
 
 Required properties:
@@ -28,6 +37,13 @@ Required properties:
                             ultra : ultra low latency stream
                             ull-pp : ultra low latency stream with post-processing capability
 
+      - qcom,avs-version:
+	This property can be used to specify the ADSP version/name.
+	Based on ADSP version, we decide if we have to use older
+	ADSP APIs or newer. Right now we are using "AVS 2.7" for
+	8996 purpose.If the ADSP version is anything other than this
+	we use new ADSP APIs.
+
 * msm-pcm-dsp-noirq
 
 Required properties:
@@ -75,6 +91,13 @@ Optional properties
 	8909 purpose.If the ADSP version is anything other than this
 	we use new ADSP APIs.
 
+ - qcom,avs-version:
+	This property can be used to specify the ADSP version/name.
+	Based on ADSP version, we decide if we have to use older
+	ADSP APIs or newer. Right now we are using "AVS 2.7" for
+	8996 purpose.If the ADSP version is anything other than this
+	we use new ADSP APIs.
+
 * msm-voip-dsp
 
 Required properties:
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996-mtp.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996-mtp.dtsi
index 45d0233f8ce7..26e4c5abef89 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996-mtp.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996-mtp.dtsi
@@ -812,6 +812,23 @@
 		qcom,wsa-aux-dev-prefix = "SpkrLeft", "SpkrRight",
 					  "SpkrLeft", "SpkrRight";
 	};
+
+	qcom,msm-pcm {
+		qcom,avs-version;
+	};
+
+	qcom,msm-pcm-low-latency {
+		qcom,avs-version;
+	};
+
+	qcom,msm-ultra-low-latency {
+		qcom,avs-version;
+	};
+
+	qcom,msm-compress-dsp {
+		qcom,avs-version;
+	};
+
 	qcom,msm-dai-tdm-tert-rx {
 		qcom,msm-cpudai-tdm-clk-internal = <1>;
 		qcom,msm-cpudai-tdm-sync-mode = <0>;