From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3666CC4338F for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2021 23:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alsa0.perex.cz (alsa0.perex.cz [77.48.224.243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02A5760EFD for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2021 23:52:51 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.kernel.org 02A5760EFD Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=renesas.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=alsa-project.org Received: from alsa1.perex.cz (alsa1.perex.cz [207.180.221.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A9DF1685; Thu, 5 Aug 2021 01:51:59 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 alsa0.perex.cz 6A9DF1685 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=alsa-project.org; s=default; t=1628121169; bh=7a9pEhQS3Zatmbd6XkxxOqQzu3ywSCKTqsEvb4dDfwg=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Cc:List-Id: List-Unsubscribe:List-Archive:List-Post:List-Help:List-Subscribe: From; b=MlGLfnkCF1jKFxqci60qp1zOdTXBH0uV3qEE8biBb5U0cRQzypqfSTwDgpOETo5LP aAZFajqHF0U1Ri9TQYK5gCX3Za5ck7v/v9yu3lVhN3nT3AVnhFykZ0IonpZ1kiBpM+ RiaWvIEGOmuo8wKtNXeTGdjpOMlT/mk6CDITKpmE= Received: from alsa1.perex.cz (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alsa1.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF156F801F7; Thu, 5 Aug 2021 01:51:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by alsa1.perex.cz (Postfix, from userid 50401) id 789D9F8025F; Thu, 5 Aug 2021 01:51:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from relmlie5.idc.renesas.com (relmlor1.renesas.com [210.160.252.171]) by alsa1.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10922F8016C for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2021 01:51:52 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 alsa1.perex.cz 10922F8016C Date: 05 Aug 2021 08:51:50 +0900 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.84,295,1620658800"; d="scan'208";a="89856779" Received: from unknown (HELO relmlir6.idc.renesas.com) ([10.200.68.152]) by relmlie5.idc.renesas.com with ESMTP; 05 Aug 2021 08:51:50 +0900 Received: from mercury.renesas.com (unknown [10.166.252.133]) by relmlir6.idc.renesas.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB994411777B; Thu, 5 Aug 2021 08:51:50 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <874kc4vkdl.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> From: Kuninori Morimoto To: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/14] ASoC: audio-graph-card2: add Yaml Document In-Reply-To: <875ywkvkkd.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> References: <87a6mhwyqn.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> <87wnplvk2a.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> <87lf60v9xk.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> <20210721115433.GB4259@sirena.org.uk> <87fsw124wn.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> <20210803165328.GO4668@sirena.org.uk> <87mtpyuj8c.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> <20210804171748.GC26252@sirena.org.uk> <875ywkvkkd.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 Emacs/26.3 Mule/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Linux-ALSA X-BeenThere: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - http://www.alsa-project.org" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: "Alsa-devel" Hi Mark again I will take Summer Vacation from tomorrow in 1 week. I'm sorry for my long term no respoce then. > Thank you for your feedback > > > The -mf- there reads unfortunately differently in English so we > > definitely don't want to go with that one I think. I do agree that it's > > hard to come up with a name, possibly rich-link-graph-card or something? > > Thanks. It is a little bit long name, so, > rich-graph-card, or rich-link-card is nice for me. > > > Well, I think the big issue from a DT point of view is needing to add a > > new generic card at all - there's much less problem with keeping the old > > ones around than there is with keeping on adding new generic cards. > > I guess/hope the DT issue will be disappear if new card can keep > existing binding... > > > Actually, looking at the bindings documents I'm not 100% clear what the > > differences in the binding (as opposed to the code that parses it) are - > > this may just be the examples being too cut down to show them. I'm not > > 100% clear why we have the three different compatibles in there, that > > feels like something that should just be in the graph description, > > Ohhhh, yes, indeed. I didn't notice about that ! > If my understanding was correct, it can be something like ... > > card { > compatible = "rich-graph-card"; > ... > links = ... > > mix { > ... > } > multi { > ... > } > codec2codec { > ... > } > } > > Hmm, nice idea. > > > especially codec2codec since we might have for example both a DSP and a > > codec2codec link in the same card. > > It is possible in my understanding, but am I misunderstanding ? > > ... is it naming issue ? > In my understanding, both "DSP" and "MIXer" are using "DPCM" connection, > but driver/sample is calling it as "DSP". > I think "MIXer" and "Codec2Codec" in same card is possible. > I'm not sure about "DSP" case... > > Thank you for your help !! > > Best regards > --- > Kuninori Morimoto