[alsa-devel] [PATCH v5-resend 2/7] ASoC: sirf: Add SiRF audio port driver is used by SiRF internal audio codec

[RongJun Ying]

2014-03-07 9:49 GMT+08:00 Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 05:51:43PM +0800, RongJun Ying wrote:
>> 2014-03-06 17:20 GMT+08:00 Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>:
>
>> > ...use devm_ioremap_resource() instead, please send a followup patch
>> > fixing this.
>
>> The i2s, internal audio codec and audio port use same register physics address
>> and size. So if one driver use the devm_ioremap_resource instead.
>> The other driver will invoke devm_ioremap_resource failed.
>
> That's buggy - there should only be one device for each register range,
> you should have a core MFD driver which gets the hardware resource and
> shares the regmap with the client drivers.

The I2S, internal audio codec and audio port share same register address space.
Do you suggest that I write a MFD driver or write sirf-audio-core .c
to share the regmap and register child audio devices (I2S, internal
codec and port)?

Thanks
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Rongjun Ying