[alsa-devel] [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.15-rc1

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:55:35 +0100,
Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> 
> On 11/15/17 1:34 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > [Adding more people and alsa-devel to Cc]
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 03:40:09 +0100,
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> please pull sound updates for v4.15-rc1 from:
> >>
> >> Hmm. Making "oldconfig" on my laptop with this, my
> >> SND_SOC_INTEL_SKYLAKE went away.
> >>
> >> And the reason seems to be that new SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_TOPLEVEL config option.
> >>
> >> Which has no help associated with it.
> >>
> >> This is not a friendly thing to do to people. It basically breaks
> >> existing setups for no documented reason, and with no explanation.
> >>
> >> Please fix the config situation. At the very least, add documentation.
> >
> > Sorry about that.  I saw Vinod already submitted a patch to add the
> > help text to CONFIG_SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_TOPLEVEL, so the least fix
> > should go in soon.
> >
> > But now looking at these changes, I noticed a few things, too:
> >
> > - With the introduction of SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_TOPLEVEL, keeping
> >    SND_SOC_INTEL_COMMON and SND_SOC_INTEL_MACH individually doesn't
> >    make much sense.  They can be dropped and replaced with
> >    SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_TOPLEVEL as a further cleanup.
> >
> > - ... or, make SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_TOPLEVEL=y as default, if this is
> >    considered to be a top-level filter config (like the network vendor
> >    kconfig items).  In that case, the reverse-selection of
> >    SND_SOC_INTEL_COMMON and SND_SOC_INTEL_MACH should be avoided, but
> >    they should be selected from the actual drivers instead.
> 
> This level was introduced as a shortcut to help select the platform
> drivers associated with the closed-source audio firmware.
> There will be a follow-up set of patches coming soon, and we'll need
> to have the corresponding top-level selector for the drivers handling
> the open-source audio firmware. Please don't make too many assumptions
> on this SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_TOPLEVEL, it is not going to be true for
> everyone moving forward.

OK, but *before* moving to that direction, please fix the current mess
at first.  If CONFIG_SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_TOPLEVEL is the entry to filter
the Intel ASoC drivers, it should be the one with default=y and
doesn't select / enable others as itself.  OTOH, if some explicit
selection by user becomes mandatory while it wasn't, it's already a
bad step.

> If you want look at the Kconfig setup, the latest code cherry-picked
> on top of v4.14 is here
> https://github.com/plbossart/sound/tree/backport/intel-audio-stable-v4.14

Thanks.  But I see only the very same content in sound/soc/intel/*...?


Takashi

> the menuconfig options are still in device drivers/sound/ASoC but now
> you have SST and SOF menus.
> 
> >
> >
> > And I believe there are a few more possible cleanups / fixes in the
> > messy Intel ASoC Kconfigs.  For example, SND_SOC_INTEL_SST is almost
> > always set.  The only exception is via SND_SST_ATOM_HIFI2_PLATFORM.
> > But all machine drivers using Atom Hifi2 do set SND_SST_IPC_ACPI,
> > which also requires SND_SOC_INTEL_SST.
> >
> > Further looking at this, we see that the only entry that does *not*
> > require SND_SOC_INTEL_SST is the case with SND_MFLD_MACHINE in
> > sound/soc/intel/boards.  And now more interesting part -- there is no
> > corresponding entry in Makefile.  That is, this kconfig is effectively
> > dead!  The source code mfld_machine.c exists, but it's just a place
> > holder now.  The code was supposed to be integrated into atom
> > directory by the commit b97169da0699, but it seems forgotten to be
> > updated.
> >
> > Hmm...
> >
> >
> > Takashi
> >
>