[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2] ASoC: dapm: Add new widget type for constructing DAPM graphs on DSPs.

[Liam Girdwood]

On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 11:01 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:28:55PM +0100, Liam Girdwood wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 18:53 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > I'm still a bit unclear about how a pipeline and effect are different
> > > from an ASoC point of view - it matters on the DSP but from the kernel's
> > > point of view a pipeline just an effect that happens to have a more
> > > complicated implementation on the DSP?
> 
> > Yes, that's true, some of the objects will most likely be treated the
> > same by the kernel core but for the DSP and driver they will different.
> > i.e. they create different objects with different topology private data
> > (using the widget ID to differentiate).
> 
> Shouldn't that just be handled in the driver though?  Nothing outside
> the driver cares.  We're going to need to differentiate between
> different effects and pipelines in the driver anyway.

It can be, just a little more code in the driver that's all. I'll remove
the pipeline widget and resend.

Thanks

Liam