On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 09:33:16 +0800 Chen-Yu Tsai wens@csie.org wrote:
Note: This driver is closed to the sun4i-i2s except that:
- it handles the H3
If it's close to sun4i-i2s, you should probably rework that one to support the newer SoCs.
- it creates the sound card (with sun4i-i2s, the sound card is created by the CODECs)
I think this is wrong. I2S is only the DAI. You typically have a separate platform driver for the whole card, or just use simple-card.
An other device is not needed. The layout is simple: I2S_controller (CPU DAI) <-> HDMI_CODEC (CODEC DAI) The HDMI CODEC is supported by the HDMI video driver (only one device), so, it cannot be the card device. ASoC does not use the CPU DAI device (I2S_controller), so, it is natural to use it to handle the card. Otherwise, the simple-card asks for a node definition in the DT and this node is a pure Linux software entity. On the other side, the simple-graph-card from Kuninori is not useful for this simple case.