On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:48:51 +0100, Liam Girdwood wrote:
On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 09:55 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:45:44 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 06:01:28AM +0000, Liam Girdwood wrote:
- Shortname is board/machine name. This can come from DMI or device
tree. e.g. "Asus T100"
That seems more useful for users.
- Long name is 1 + driver name + optional firmware name. (I've just
added the FW name here too as we can have potentially > 1 FW per driver
- BYT is an example) e.g. "Asus T00: byt-rt5640: IntSST1.bin".
Shouldn't we use whatever we use to figure out which firmware to load rather than the firmware name? Someone might do something like try to replace one firmware with another and get everything confused.
This is not to load FW for our use case, the FW name is hard coded in driver tables. We do have several FWs for the BYT driver that all have different capabilities. Userspace could set the correct config for each FW if it knew the FW that was being used.
I agree that a consistent name would be better. Though, practically seen, the long name isn't persistent with many drivers, as it often contains the irq or port numbers that are assigned dynamically. That said, the consistency of long name isn't strictly required. It's regarded rather as a verbose information to user, which shouldn't be used as an identifier key.
OTOH, the driver name is the primary id key used by alsa-lib for its configuration. So this must be retained through versions and unique for each configuration.
Ok, so we probably need to add in the board/machine name here (from DMI or DT). We currently have several x86 machines all using the same codec
- DSP + FW, but all have slightly different clocking and routing that is
causing problems as userspace cannot configure correctly.
The short name is something between them. The alsa-lib USB-audio config file refers to the short name because the driver doesn't provide a unique id for driver_name for various workarounds. But it should be considered as an exception. Ideally, driver_name should be unique enough for each different configuration.
So IIUC this would mean ?
- short name is optional, but could be board name.
Right.
- long name is driver_name plus any other optional information for the
user. Not used by applications or alsa-lib to determine sound card capabilities.
In most cases, long name is short name + more optional information.
- Driver name is unique. machine driver name + (optional) board name +
(optional) fw name. e.g. "byt-rt5640: Asus T100: IntSST1.bin" used by alsa-lib and userspace to determine sound card and set config.
But, beware that driver name is fairly short, it's a 16 bytes string. The short name is 32 bytes and long name is 80 bytes. Thus, you need a special care to provide a unique driver name.
Takashi