[alsa-devel] [PATCH v1 11/15] ASoC: fsl_ssi: Setup AC97 in dai_probe()

[Nicolin Chen]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 04:17:20PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> > AC97 configures some registers earlier to start a communication
> > with CODECs, so this patch moves those register settings to the
> > dai_probe() as well, along with other register configurations.
 
> This patch breaks AC'97 CODEC probing.
> 
> Namely, the fsl_ssi DAI probe callback is only called after the AC'97
> CODEC probe callback, so when you move SSI AC'97 startup to its DAI
> probe callback it won't be done yet when the CODEC is probed (and this
> requires a working AC'97 interface to successfully complete).

Hmm...What's the dependency here? Why is it required like this?
I am okay to put everything to a separate fsl_ssi_hw_init() and
move it back to the platform probe() though.