Re: [PATCH] ASoC: ti: Allocate dais dynamically for TDM and audio graph card

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Péter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@gmail.com> [210126 06:00]:
> On 1/24/21 11:27 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
> > +	for (i = 0; i < mcbsp->dai_count; i++) {
> > +		struct snd_soc_dai_driver *dai = &mcbsp->dais[i];
> > +
> > +		dai->name = devm_kasprintf(mcbsp->dev, GFP_KERNEL, "%s-dai%i",
> > +					   dev_name(mcbsp->dev), i);
> > +
> > +		if (i == 0) {
> > +			dai->probe = omap_mcbsp_probe;
> > +			dai->remove = omap_mcbsp_remove;
> > +			dai->ops = &mcbsp_dai_ops;
> > +		}
> 
> You are effectively creating extra dummy-dais (no ops), but naming them as
> McBSP.
> The dummy-dais will only work if the real dai is in use and the dai link
> which contains the real dai must be configured (TDM slots, format, channels)
> to accomodate the link which contains the dummy-dai.
> 
> The idea did not aged well for me ;)
> It still looks and sounds like a hack to model the TDM slots on a single DAI
> as multiple DAIs just to satisfy a generic binding which is not aimed to
> satisfy the droid4 setup (which is far from anything simple).

After thinking about this a bit more, I think the voice call dai should be
created by the voice dai. When we have an active voice call, the data
transfer is completely out of control of the kernel mcbsp driver. It needs
to be only configured on the pmic.

So I'm suggesting tha we create the modem voice call dai as a child for
sound/soc/codecs/cpcap.c, does that sound OK to you guys?

I think from snd-soc-audio-graph-card binding point of view, we'd just move
the cpu_dai_mdm endpoint out of the mcbsp in the device tree and drop the
$subject patch. Then the dts for the pmic voice codec becomes something
like this (untested):

cpcap_audio: audio-codec {
	#sound-dai-cells = <1>;
	#address-cells = <1>;
	#size-cells = <0>;

	port@0 {
		reg = <0>;
		cpcap_audio_codec0: endpoint {
		};
	};
	port@1 {
		reg = <1>;
		cpcap_audio_codec1: endpoint@0 {
		};
		cpu_dai_mdm: endpoint@1 {
			reg = <1>;
			dai-format = "dsp_a";
			frame-master = <&cpcap_audio_codec1>;
			bitclock-master = <&cpcap_audio_codec1>;
			remote-endpoint = <&mot_mdm6600_audio_codec0>;
		};
        };
};

For things like recording a voice call, I think mcbsp could be configured
to also listen on the traffic and dump it out. I guess that could also
happen directly with calls from the sound/soc/codecs/cpcap.c driver to
the mcbsp driver since we havethe audio graph mapping. Anyways, that's a
separate series of patches, still something to consider.

Regards,

Tony