On 05/05/2022 at 17:01, Mark Brown wrote:
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 02:47:04PM +0000,Codrin.Ciubotariu@microchip.com wrote:
On 05.05.2022 16:58, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
I'm fine with that, but I see that some Kconfig entries "select" this SND_SOC_DMIC directly (amd, intel, mediatek, stm). If it's absolutely needed for PDMC to work, what about doing the same as it would prevent some broken configurations?
The only way it makes sense to me to have this driver selected somewhere is in a sound card driver, used for a specific board, which we know it has PDM microphones. Since, for now, we use the simple sound card for our audio interfaces, we have no place to add this select. The reason I do not like to add this select under the controller driver, as some of the vendors did, is because, in the future, we might have different PDM microphones that might not work with SND_SOC_DMIC and might need a different driver. I don't have a strong opinion on this. If you think I am overthinking, please let me know and I will change this.
It's unlikely but possible that there could be some other device connected (eg, you could have a DSP or something that generates PDM output). If the driver doesn't directly instantiate the DMIC itself then it's probably reasonable for it to be user controllable if the DMIC driver is there.
Fair enough, It makes perfect sense to me as it is then. Thanks for the feedback!
Best regards, Nicolas