[alsa-devel] Applied "ASoC: simple-card: indicate rebind issue" to the asoc tree

[Mark Brown]

The patch

   ASoC: simple-card: indicate rebind issue

has been applied to the asoc tree at

   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git for-5.4

All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next
tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during
the next merge window (or sooner if it is a bug fix), however if
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Thanks,
Mark

>From 39c66b6ef6f3aaf5bac61555db70ffb2864161c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx at renesas.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 17:15:54 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] ASoC: simple-card: indicate rebind issue

ALSA SoC try to rebind Sound Card if Card/CPU/Codec/Platform
were unbinded and re-binded again.
But, Simple Card might can't rebind again if user do for example

	unbind CPU or Codec driver
	bind   CPU or Codec driver

Because Simple Card is still pointing old/unbinded
CPU or Codec driver's DAI name at dlc->dai_name.

To avoid this issue, it needs to alloc memory and keep DAI name
even though if CPU or Codec driver was unbinded.
Or, always do unbind/bind at Sound Card.

For now, this patch indicates this issue as FIXME.

Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx at renesas.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87tv9tu75x.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
---
 sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
index 0eac3bcb9736..fc9c753db8dd 100644
--- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
@@ -46,7 +46,25 @@ static int asoc_simple_parse_dai(struct device_node *node,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	/* Get dai->name */
+	/*
+	 * FIXME
+	 *
+	 * Here, dlc->dai_name is pointer to CPU/Codec DAI name.
+	 * If user unbinded CPU or Codec driver, but not for Sound Card,
+	 * dlc->dai_name is keeping unbinded CPU or Codec
+	 * driver's pointer.
+	 *
+	 * If user re-bind CPU or Codec driver again, ALSA SoC will try
+	 * to rebind Card via snd_soc_try_rebind_card(), but because of
+	 * above reason, it might can't bind Sound Card.
+	 * Because Sound Card is pointing to released dai_name pointer.
+	 *
+	 * To avoid this rebind Card issue,
+	 * 1) It needs to alloc memory to keep dai_name eventhough
+	 *    CPU or Codec driver was unbinded, or
+	 * 2) user need to rebind Sound Card everytime
+	 *    if he unbinded CPU or Codec.
+	 */
 	ret = snd_soc_of_get_dai_name(node, &dlc->dai_name);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
-- 
2.20.1