[alsa-devel] [PATCH 04/11] MFD: twl4030-audio: Add DT support

[Peter Ujfalusi]

On 08/08/2012 05:49 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> That makes sense if the GPIO is actively driven, open drain should be
> better here, but it's still a generic thing which it'd be nice to
> extract.

Yes, the idea in it's core is generic, but right now I can not think of a
generic implementation which would work.
In case of twl4030 this is how it looks like:

1. if extmute is requested
 1.1. if GPIO number is not valid
   Use the internal MUTE functionality (HS_POPN_SET register, EXTMUTE bit)
 1.2. if GPIO number is valid
   set the GPIO to 1
2. Execute the sequence for the power up/down
3. if extmute is requested
 3.1. if GPIO number is not valid
   Use the internal MUTE functionality (HS_POPN_SET register, EXTMUTE bit)
 3.2. if GPIO number is valid
   set the GPIO to 0

For other devices it could be simpler:
1. Set GPIO for mute
2. Toggle a bit in the codec
3. Clear the GPIO to unmute

another device would need a sequence in step 2 instead of a single bit change.

To cover all of this in a generic way is not that straight forward IMHO.

> Still, the main thing here was the fact that we should be able to drop
> the flag for the feature in the first place.

Which flag you are referring?
I can (and have dropped) the hs_extmute_disable_level flag, but separate
hs_extmute, hs_extmute_gpio is needed for this device.

hs_extmute tells that the board implemented some sort of HS extmute functionality.
hs_extmute_gpio tells if the board is _not_ using the built in functionality,
but it is using external GPIO line to enable/disable the mute.

Sure I could do this:
hs_extmute: if only this is set we shall use the chip built in functionality
hs_extmute_gpio: if this is set we use the extmute feature but with external
                 GPIO.

But both need to be documented and supported.

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