From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@intel.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>,
tiwai@suse.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
ranjani.sridharan@intel.com,
pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com,
Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com>,
Fred Oh <fred.oh@linux.intel.com>,
parav@nvidia.com, jgg@nvidia.com,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>,
Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add ancillary bus support
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 14:27:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001132709.GG6715@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200930225051.889607-2-david.m.ertman@intel.com>
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 03:50:46PM -0700, Dave Ertman wrote:
> Documentation/driver-api/ancillary_bus.rst | 230 +++++++++++++++++++++
> Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 1 +
It would probably be useful to have the documentation in a separate
patch, it's a huge proportion of the patch and would make it much more
approachable.
> +are controlled by DT/ACPI. The same argument applies for not using MFD in this
> +scenario as MFD relies on individual function devices being physical devices
> +that are DT enumerated.
See my commments on the cover letter about MFD, this is just not true.
> +An example for this kind of requirement is the audio subsystem where a single
> +IP is handling multiple entities such as HDMI, Soundwire, local devices such as
> +mics/speakers etc. The split for the core's functionality can be arbitrary or
This is not a requirement of the audio subsystem, this is to do with how
the Intel audio hardware has been implemented on their modern SoCs.
> +int ancillary_device_initialize(struct ancillary_device *ancildev)
> +{
> +int __ancillary_device_add(struct ancillary_device *ancildev, const char *modname)
> +{
It can be useful to have this split but there's also going to be plenty
of cases where people just need to register a device based on the struct
ancilliary_device straight away so it would be good to at least have a
standard ancilliary_device_new() (or whatever) that does both steps in
one. As Greg said in his review this split model is a bit more fiddly
to use and frequently leads to error handling problems in drivers.
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Thread overview: 99+ 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 [this message]
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
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
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