Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] ARM: configs: at91: sama7_defconfig: add MCHP PDMC and DMIC drivers

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 02:47:04PM +0000, Codrin.Ciubotariu@microchip.com wrote:
> On 05.05.2022 16:58, Nicolas Ferre wrote:

> > I'm fine with that, but I see that some Kconfig entries "select" this 
> > SND_SOC_DMIC directly (amd, intel, mediatek, stm).
> > If it's absolutely needed for PDMC to work, what about doing the same as 
> > it would prevent some broken configurations?

> The only way it makes sense to me to have this driver selected somewhere 
> is in a sound card driver, used for a specific board, which we know it 
> has PDM microphones. Since, for now, we use the simple sound card for 
> our audio interfaces, we have no place to add this select.
> The reason I do not like to add this select under the controller driver, 
> as some of the vendors did, is because, in the future, we might have 
> different PDM microphones that might not work with SND_SOC_DMIC and 
> might need a different driver.
> I don't have a strong opinion on this. If you think I am overthinking, 
> please let me know and I will change this.

It's unlikely but possible that there could be some other device
connected (eg, you could have a DSP or something that generates PDM
output).  If the driver doesn't directly instantiate the DMIC itself
then it's probably reasonable for it to be user controllable if the DMIC
driver is there.

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