[alsa-devel] ASoC - Support for multiple components

[Liam Girdwood]

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 02:14 +0900, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 05:25:14PM +0100, Liam Girdwood wrote:

> 
> > ASoC doesn't fully use the driver model for components in this changeset
> > (or at all) due to the complex relationships between the individual
> > components for probing() and for control of PM operations (i.e. we cant
> > have pops and clicks at suspend). 
> 
> > This is not to say ASoC wont use the full driver model for components in
> > the future. This work is an important step on the way to achieving this
> > aim. 
> 
> The ordering requirements here mean this is a *very* open question.
> Linus just nacked a bunch of stuff for 2.6.34 which would have added
> some ability to waiting for components to probe stuff that things like
> ASoC would need to use the driver core fully.  At the minute subsystems
> like ASoC which are built up of components that don't have much to do
> with each other have to do something like ASoC is doing and waiting for
> all the components to come online before bringing the subsystem level
> devices up.

Heh - I wasn't volunteering to make the changes in driver core to
support this myself, but was planning to wait for someone else to do
something acceptable for Linus here ;)

Liam