[PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: sound: Device tree bindings for the apq8039 sound complex

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 04:32:46PM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> > On Jun 22, 2020, at 15:04 , Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:

> > No, you're encoding use case decisions into the DT here - for example
> > your example will break use cases like ring tones and shutter sounds
> > which should play through both speaker and headphones.  It's also
> > setting volumes which may be inappropriate or may be not and interferes
> > with userspace using those same physical volume controls.

> It is completely optional whether you use this functionality or not.

It's optional for whoever writes the DT and flashes it, it is not
optional for whoever's doing the OS configuration - these may not be the
same people.

> In that case you don’t use the automatic routing you merely set it to off
> and everything works as before. Or you merely use the route setup for
> the function from userspace.

Userspace shouldn't have to be fighting with the kernel for control of
the device.

> The device in question is not a mobile phone so there is no requirement
> to have speaker and headphone active at the same time. It is possible to
> create a function that would be headphone+speaker active at the same time
> for that case.

That may be true for your OS configuration but that doesn't mean that
some other user of the same hardware won't want to do something that
needs both simultaneously.
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