[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 17/17] ASoC: fsl: add imx-sgtl5000 machine driver

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:39:02PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 02:46:01PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This you can just set in the card struct, no need for explicit code at
> > all.

> Yes, I just tried.  It also works but a little bit differently.  We
> only set_fmt for codec_dai here, while ASoC core will set_fmt for both
> codec_dai and cpu_dai if dai_link->dai_fmt is set.  However, the
> fsl_ssi does not provide .set_fmt implementation, and consequently we
> will see error message below, which does not impact functionality
> though.

>   fsl-ssi-dai 83fcc000.ssi: Failed to set DAI format: -22

> I hope we keep the code as it is now and improve later when fsl_ssi
> gets improved.

No, we should fix the core to work better in this case - not having a
DAI operation is perfectly normal and should be supported.

> > > +	ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "fsl,mux-int-port", &int_port);
> > > +	ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "fsl,mux-ext-port", &ext_port);

> > It seems very odd to have namespacing on the individual property names.
> > Why are you doing that?  The properties are already defined in terms of
> > the device binding.  Though everyone else is doing it so not really a
> > problem.

> The general device tree binding practice is we'd better have a vendor
> prefix on the property name, if the property applies on specific vendor
> drivers instead of common ones across different vendors.

There's nothing generic about this device, it only applies to a specific
combination of things and in so far as it applies to those the
properties are generic - any board combining i.MX and this CODEC is
going to have an audmux.

> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * The port numbering in the hardware manual starts at 1, while
> > > +	 * the audmux API expects it starts at 0.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	int_port--;
> > > +	ext_port--;

> > Should have error checking somewhere to make sure that the user
> > remembered this.

> Because different i.MX SoC may have different internal and external
> port number, I do not think of a way to check that.  And I would not

In that case the audmux code should be validating the arguments.

> worry about it that much, since all the hardware documents number the
> port from 1, while device tree user/author will have to look at those
> documents for the data.

OTOH the in kernel API uses a different numbering and if the user is
porting their existing code over to device tree...

> > > +	imx_audmux_v2_configure_port(int_port,
> > > +			IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PTCR_SYN |
> > > +			IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PTCR_TFSEL(ext_port) |
> > > +			IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PTCR_TCSEL(ext_port) |
> > > +			IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PTCR_TFSDIR |
> > > +			IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PTCR_TCLKDIR,
> > > +			IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PDCR_RXDSEL(ext_port));

> > I'm not sure we've really gained much from converting to a platform
> > driver given that the device just registers something globally...

> Converting audmux to a platform driver does not change anything about
> that.  It makes device tree support easier, and gets the audmux users
> (imx machine drivers) stay away from including <mach/audmux.h>.

It's not actually fixed anything in the APIs though and we've now also
got a race in the driver probes since the audmux now need to come up via
the device model instead of just being there - we could try to configure
the audmux with no platform driver bound.  We should really have the
audmux as at least an aux_dev in the card to make sure it's there.
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