[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/4] drm/i915: Add audio hotplug info struct

[Takashi Iwai]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:50:03 +0200,
David Henningsson wrote:
> 
> >>   struct i915_audio_component {
> >>   	struct device *dev;
> >> +	struct hdac_bus *hdac_bus;
> >
> > If we want to be more generic, using a struct device would be better,
> > e.g.
> > 	struct device *audio_dev;
> 
> Does this work? If we want to have the hdac_bus.dev ptr instead of a 
> hdac_bus ptr, there does not seem to be an obvious way to go from the 
> audio_dev back to the hdac_bus struct (as snd_hdac_bus_init takes an 
> arbitrary dev pointer).

Hrm, right, currently it's not straightforward.  Scratch the idea,
then.


> >> +		void (*hotplug_notify)(struct hdac_bus *, const struct i915_audio_hotplug_info *);
> >> +	} *cb_ops;
> >
> > cb_ops doesn't sound intuitive.  Any better name?
> 
> I was thinking of it as "callback ops", i e, calls that go in the 
> reverse direction compared to the already existing "ops".
> 
> But if we call the device "audio_dev" as you suggested above, then maybe 
> "audio_ops" would be nice and symmetric?

Yes, it sounds better.


Takashi