[alsa-devel] Fwd: [PATCH 29/46] Input: touchscreen: use wrapper for pxa2xx ac97 registers

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 8:48 PM Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 05:41:44PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > To avoid a dependency on the pxa platform header files with
> > hardcoded registers, change the driver to call a wrapper
> > in the pxa2xx-ac97-lib that encapsulates all the other
> > ac97 stuff.
>
> Not supper happy about adding module dependencies. Can we include
> mach/regs-ac97.h from include/sound/pxa2xx-lib.h and use static inlines?
> Someone needs to include mach/regs-ac97.h in the end...
>
> Or there is something later in the series that needs it?

One of the goals of the series is to completely remove all mach/*.h headers
and place them somewhere else, ideally inaccessible to device drivers.

In case of mach/regs-ac97.h, the later patch "ASoC: pxa: ac97: use normal
MMIO accessors" passes the physical register base address as a platform
device resource that gets ioremapped in the ac97 driver, rather than
hardcoding the virtual address in a global header.

I agree that the exported function is still ugly, but I hope it's enough of
an improvement over the previous state that we can do it anyway.

If you have any better ideas though, I can give that a try, too.
One possibility would be a higher-level interface exported on top
of 'struct snd_ac97', but I could not figure out how to do this.

     Arnd