[RFC PATCH 3/5] HACK: ASoC: Tolerate N-cpus-to-M-codecs links

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 02:34:33PM +0200, Martin Povišer wrote:
> > On 25. 4. 2022, at 14:25, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:

> > If you register two separate DAIs (well, links) with the API without
> > doing anything else the API will just expose them to userspace as two
> > separate things with no indication that they're related.

> Sure, but what I am addressing here is a single DAI link with multiple
> CPU DAIs, invoked in DT like this:

> 	dai-link at 0 {
> 		link-name = "Speakers";
> 		mclk-fs = <256>;
> 
> 		cpu {
> 			sound-dai = <&mca 0>, <&mca 1>;
> 		};
> 		codec {
> 			sound-dai = <&speaker_left_woof1>,
> 				<&speaker_right_woof1>,
> 				<&speaker_left_tweet>,
> 				<&speaker_right_tweet>,
> 				<&speaker_left_woof2>,
> 				<&speaker_right_woof2>;
> 		};
> 	};

You could parse this into two separate links for the benefit of the
framewokr if you're using a custom machine driver (which I suspect you
probably have to).

> >> What about this interim solution: In case of N-to-M links we put in
> >> the most restrictive condition for checking capture/playback stream
> >> validity: we check all of the CPU DAIs. Whatever ends up being the
> >> proper solution later can only be less restrictive than this.

> > That's not the issue here?

> Well to me it looks like it is. Because if I invoke the DAI link like
> I quoted above, and the platform driver supports it, the playback/capture
> stream validity check is the only place it breaks down. Notwithstanding
> this may be the wrong API as you wrote.

I am surprised that doesn't otherwise explode TBH - at the very least
I'd expect it to show two PCMs to userspace which if I'm understanding
your description correctly isn't really what's going on.
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