[PATCH 1/2] ASoC: dt-bindings: qcom: Document "aux-devs" property

Stephan Gerhold stephan at gerhold.net
Wed Aug 26 10:41:18 CEST 2020


On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 03:52:53PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 11:15:32AM +0200, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> > In some cases we need to probe additional audio components that do
> > not appear as part of the DAI links specified in the device tree.
> > Examples for this are auxiliary devices such as analog amplifiers
> > or codecs.
> > 
> > To make them work they need to be added as part of "aux-devs"
> > and connected to some other audio component using the audio routes
> > configurable using "(qcom,)audio-routing".
> > 
> > Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan at gerhold.net>
> > ---
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,apq8016-sbc.txt        | 7 +++++++
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,apq8096.txt  | 8 ++++++++
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,sdm845.txt   | 8 ++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,apq8016-sbc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,apq8016-sbc.txt
> > index 84b28dbe9f15..23998262a0a7 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,apq8016-sbc.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,apq8016-sbc.txt
> > @@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ Required properties:
> >  			  * DMIC
> >  			  * Ext Spk
> >  
> > +Optional properties:
> > +
> > +- aux-devs		: A list of phandles for auxiliary devices (e.g. analog
> > +			  amplifiers) that do not appear directly within the DAI
> > +			  links. Should be connected to another audio component
> > +			  using "qcom,audio-routing".
> > +
> >  Dai-link subnode properties and subnodes:
> >  
> >  Required dai-link subnodes:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,apq8096.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,apq8096.txt
> > index c814e867850f..248df5056fec 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,apq8096.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,apq8096.txt
> > @@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ This binding describes the APQ8096 sound card, which uses qdsp for audio.
> >  	Value type: <stringlist>
> >  	Definition: The user-visible name of this sound card.
> >  
> > +- aux-devs
> > +	Usage: optional
> > +	Value type: <phandles with arguments>
> 
> How do you know how many arguments? It either has to be fixed or needs a 
> #.*cells in the phandles. For the latter, you'd need to come up with a 
> common binding.
> 

Actually the phandle should not have any arguments, seems like I just
copied this from some other entry. Will fix this, thank you!

Stephan


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