[alsa-devel] ASOC: Best way to get private data from machine driver to the other drivers?

[Liam Girdwood]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 16:14 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> I'm writing an ASOC driver.  When my machine driver loads, it determines some 
> hardware information for the DMA controllers, some other hardware information 
> for the I2S controller, and even more information for the codec.
> 
> I want to be able to pass all this information to each of the three other 
> drivers.  Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that I have enough "private_data" 
> pointers available to me.
> 
> The current ASOC drivers all use statically defined global structures and 
> indexes into arrays of these structures to identify individual devices, such 
> associating I2S controller #2 with DMA channels 3 and 4.  On PowerPC, this 
> doesn't work.  The actual hardware configuration is determined at runtime (see 
> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/), and so the machine driver needs to collect all the 
> information and make all the device-to-device associations.
> 
> For example, the PCM driver has an open function:
> 
> static struct snd_pcm_ops fsl_dma_ops = {
> 	.open           = fsl_dma_open,
> 	...
> 
> static int fsl_dma_open(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
> {
> 	...
> 
> What I would like is for fsl_dma_open() to be able to obtain pointers to the 
> DMA controller's registers (there are two controllers with 4 channels each) by 
> looking inside 'substream'.  How can I do that?
> 

I think we have addressed this now in ASoC V2. Every component driver
now registers as a standard Linux device driver. It would probably be
possible to read the dts configuration at probe() and then configure the
driver with the correct DMA pointers before calling driver_register().

http://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6-asoc;a=shortlog;h=asoc-v2-dev

Could you have a look at the V2 i.mx31 SSI driver and let me know if we
need further changes for better dts support.

Thanks

Liam