More Generic Audio Graph Sound Card idea

[Kuninori Morimoto]

Hi Sameer

> > But, I guess new driver 1st version is focus to
> > detecting normal-link and DPCM-link only.
> 
> Do you plan to propose something like enum for card2 and has scope for
> extension, where link type can be normal/DPCM/codec-to-codec/etc., ?
> Since there are so many board variants and may have some specific
> requirements, I am wondering being able to detect link type from DT
> should be the only motivation for a new driver.

I'm now thinking that new one can detect normal-link, DPCM-link,
multi-CPU / multi-Codec, Codec-to-Codec as normal audio-graph feature.
And has .hook callback for Eeach board specific feature.
see my previous mail which was To:Pierre-Louis
But, it is still under idea, not yet fixed.

> I am afraid that even the new driver won't work as it is for my case
> unless a similar compatible and flag exposed for it. So I am not sure
> how different it would be from [0].

Yes, that is the reason why I'm discussing how to implement new driver.
If we have "-cc-" and you use it on upsteam,
we will keep current card driver as-is, and I will create new "card2" driver.
Because keeping compatible will be difficult.
But I'm not sure what should I do.

Thank you for your help !!

Best regards
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Kuninori Morimoto