From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, tiwai@suse.de,
ranjani.sridharan@intel.com,
pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com, parav@nvidia.com,
jgg@nvidia.com, Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client support
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 20:16:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001181624.GC3598943@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001160316.GL6715@sirena.org.uk>
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 05:03:16PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 05:32:07PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 03:40:19PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > Right, so my concern is that as soon as we decide we want to pass some
> > > resources or platform data through to one of the subdevices it needs to
> > > move over into being a platform device and vice versa. That feels like
> > > something that's going to add to the mess for some of the uses.
>
> > There shouldn't be a need for resources or platform data to be passed
> > that way as they are all "owned" by the parent device that creates
> > these.
>
> > I don't want to see platform devices become children of real devices
> > (like PCI and USB and others), which is the goal here. platform devices
> > are overloaded and abused enough as it is, let's not make it worse.
>
> How does this interact with the situation where someone makes a PCI
> device that's basically a bunch of IPs glued together in a PCI memory
> region (or similarly for other buses)? The IPs all have distinct
> memory regions and other resources like interrupt lines which makes them
> unsuitable for auxilliary devices as proposed, especially in cases where
> there's more than one copy of the IP instantiated. There's a bunch of
> PCI MFDs in tree already of admittedly varying degrees of taste, and
> MFDs on other buses also use the resource passing stuff.
I would like to move those PCI MFDs away from that, and into this bus
instead.
If there needs to have a way to pass/share resources, great, let's add
it, there's no objection from me.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 22:50 [PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client support Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 1/6] Add ancillary bus support Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 23:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 11:01 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 11:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 11:54 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 12:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 12:15 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 18:26 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 11:02 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:30 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 11:05 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 11:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 12:14 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 14:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:38 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:06 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 17:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:39 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-01 14:43 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 13:27 ` Mark Brown
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 2/6] ASoC: SOF: Introduce descriptors for SOF client Dave Ertman
2020-10-01 13:02 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 15:59 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-01 22:16 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-02 4:53 ` gregkh
2020-10-02 17:07 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-03 9:02 ` gregkh
2020-10-05 2:35 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-05 11:27 ` gregkh
2020-10-05 15:18 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-05 15:32 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 13:38 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 16:48 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 3/6] ASoC: SOF: Create client driver for IPC test Dave Ertman
2020-10-01 13:04 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:46 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-01 13:09 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 13:55 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 16:48 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 13:59 ` Mark Brown
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 4/6] ASoC: SOF: ops: Add ops for client registration Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 5/6] ASoC: SOF: Intel: Define " Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 6/6] ASoC: SOF: debug: Remove IPC flood test support in SOF core Dave Ertman
2020-10-01 5:58 ` [PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client support Greg KH
2020-10-01 15:54 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 7:14 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 15:55 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 16:10 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 17:13 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-02 20:23 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-03 9:08 ` Greg KH
2020-10-03 9:09 ` Greg KH
2020-10-04 2:26 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-04 23:45 ` Williams, Dan J
2020-10-05 1:18 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-05 2:39 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-05 11:25 ` gregkh
2020-10-06 22:40 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-07 9:14 ` gregkh
2020-10-07 16:19 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-07 16:22 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-07 16:41 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-07 16:42 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-07 16:56 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-01 10:05 ` Rojewski, Cezary
2020-10-01 10:59 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 12:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 12:55 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 13:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:17 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 15:08 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-01 12:50 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 13:12 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 13:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:40 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 15:32 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:03 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 18:16 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-10-01 18:29 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 19:38 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 19:54 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 20:17 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-02 0:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-02 11:19 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-02 17:23 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-02 17:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-02 17:44 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 14:07 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 15:24 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 16:20 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 16:51 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 18:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 18:13 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 19:23 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 16:50 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 17:10 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 17:16 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 17:52 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 5:05 Dave Ertman
2020-10-03 9:04 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-10-03 9:10 ` Greg KH
2020-10-03 9:10 ` Greg KH
2020-10-03 9:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-10-03 9:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-10-03 9:32 ` Greg KH
2020-10-03 9:32 ` Greg KH
2020-10-05 1:20 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 5:08 Dave Ertman
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