[PATCH 1/4] ASoC: soc-pcm: dpcm: fix playback/capture checks

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:05:39AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> On 6/16/20 9:52 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:23:25AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:

> > > Doesn't simple-card rely on DT blobs that can also be updated?

> > DT is an ABI just like ACPI - it's just more featureful.  Many systems
> > can easily update their DTs but not all of them and users don't always
> > want to try to keep it in lock step with the kernel.  Stuff like this is
> > why I've been dubious about putting DPCM things in there, it's too much
> > of a hard coding of internal APIs.

> ok, but is there any actual use of dpcm_playback/capture outside of C code?

> simple-card.c and audio-graph-card do hard-code but that's done with C in
> the driver:

...

> that that should be fixed based on the DAI format used in that dai_link - in
> other words we can make sure the capabilities of the dailink are aligned
> with the dais while parsing the DT blobs.

Right, just heading off the idea that we can fix things by updating DTs.
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