[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: compress: Correct handling of compressed ops

[Charles Keepax]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:33:53AM +0000, Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
> In existing drivers, the component which have compr_ops *was* originally
> "platform" component only.
> The main purpose why we want to replace platform (and codec) to component is that
> CPU/Codec/Platform categorize is no longer best match for modern device.
> 
> Thus, if we can replace all CPU/Codec/Platform into component, every device
> can have every feature, with no categorize !
> In other words, we don't know how many device have it.
> 

Yeah I think there is quite a lot more work to get to that point
though, we need to understand how we will present this to
user-space.

> But anyway, we don't have such situation, and we don't know how to adjust to it
> at this point.
> Thus Yes !! I can 100% agree your opinion.
> Thank you for your help
> 
> One note is that "rtd->platform" itself will be removed if all platforms were replaced.
> Then, soc_compr_get_component() / soc_compr_get_ops() might be merged or adjusted.
> 

Yes that was my thinking as well, once you remove that you should
only need some minor refactoring to make the updates.

Thanks,
Charles