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=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 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 EB4F6C433DF for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE89520747 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:50:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1593597053; bh=VvqJTlhuMbTdt8wSftp0Di3tg/lwpM7IrDFvrIoWYdc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=ay0YiWjH2KnVT1JJoSwTfjFu+YN3UMY6vKucYPWiY9u64hgudCut5dK4csWX7F6Ap gTye8wjFhmJzwONxI/9+BUjoE4BUuPeUr1BDJP8SZGEM+PqHy3z8xdf9vni4g1xEDD UZqmDQaJOwPBAexsBZ2l1AliYTjcDLxzAYuF7pHE= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729402AbgGAJuw (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2020 05:50:52 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:34262 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729289AbgGAJuw (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2020 05:50:52 -0400 Received: from localhost (fw-tnat.cambridge.arm.com [217.140.96.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5F7352073E; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:50:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1593597051; bh=VvqJTlhuMbTdt8wSftp0Di3tg/lwpM7IrDFvrIoWYdc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=vd49mohwq3SN/NFd++xTh7KZ+2Mg1fEjYdmRwTAPauyK+jJvDfDQp1gdKNrS2tmqQ JRMSTPn/VQvqmJ3IiPggijHv8yMAlFtb+sNSK45st1fAd3dWylx12P/0OM22myJwHD fKy9UW8Xm2IrXpDIUPQI/vIqrVVRQElf+GRC/tiM= Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 10:50:49 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Ranjani Sridharan , Greg KH , Takashi Iwai , Pierre-Louis Bossart , Jeff Kirsher , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, Fred Oh , lee.jones@linaro.org Subject: Re: [net-next v4 10/12] ASoC: SOF: Introduce descriptors for SOF client Message-ID: <20200701095049.GA5988@sirena.org.uk> References: <20200524063519.GB1369260@kroah.com> <20200527071733.GB52617@kroah.com> <20200629203317.GM5499@sirena.org.uk> <20200629225959.GF25301@ziepe.ca> <20200630103141.GA5272@sirena.org.uk> <20200630113245.GG25301@ziepe.ca> <936d8b1cbd7a598327e1b247441fa055d7083cb6.camel@linux.intel.com> <20200630172710.GJ25301@ziepe.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200630172710.GJ25301@ziepe.ca> X-Cookie: You've been Berkeley'ed! User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 02:27:10PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I wonder if SW_MFD might me more apt though? Based on Mark's remarks > current MFD is 'hw' MFD where the created platform_devices expect a > MMIO pass through, while this is a MFD a device-specific SW > interfacing layer. Another part of this is that there's not a clean cut over between MMIO and not using any hardware resources at all - for example a device might be connected over I2C but use resources to distribute interrupts to subdevices. > MFD really is the best name for this kind of functionality, > understanding how it is different from the current MFD might also help > justify why it exists and give it a name. Right, it's not clear what we're doing here. --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAl78XHgACgkQJNaLcl1U h9DowAf/VY4gNXd+JS5NRt3cQBZC88UrHySu3g84FplrhB+KHinCrjk9Iv5pwkbo GyWY/kiHEZrxw0FxPsG3Bmkii4aJP72ETVQNao6+EmxHEABbmRSKAvHczMlVZD7A YQKGV9Bq515hExa5zRJx57l6bUeIIqBCemh7xD7O/YxjIOkn1QczzeLTlGgsWXUh XHH7ePa8cyDkrFPW83QUR7mQleRLQTTLgW47i92kmEGVlT60xnMwYVzZtp5kjHbr XhvjpUa84lXfc+0oBsl5mwma6DYMx+AKVhr+JTiQtTyFEgHVTo6XXK4Vw6CA/oDa Ho6UJlYf9VZ6dlbY06SxSN8S2QEM/w== =gH+H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--