On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 02:20:29PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
On 6/9/20 1:47 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
That's really not very idiomatic for how Linux does stuff and seems to pretty much guarantee issues with hotplugging controls and ordering - you'd need special userspace to start up even if it was just a really simple DSP config doing only speaker correction or something. I'm not sure what the advantage would be - what problem is this solving over static names?
IMO having a static name is the problem. It is an inflexible design. Besides the firmware-name property seems to be used in other drivers to declare firmwares for the boards.
But if no one is complaining or submitting patches within the codecs to be more flexible with firmware then I can just hard code the name like other drivers do.
I'm not *completely* opposed to having the ability to suggest a name in firmware, the big problem is making use of the DSP completely dependent on having a DT property or doing some non-standard dance in userspace.