[PATCH 2/6] ASoC: SOF: Introduce descriptors for SOF client

[Sridharan, Ranjani]

On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 15:02 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 03:50:47PM -0700, Dave Ertman wrote:
> > From: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan at linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > A client in the SOF (Sound Open Firmware) context is a
> > device that needs to communicate with the DSP via IPC
> > messages. The SOF core is responsible for serializing the
> > IPC messages to the DSP from the different clients. One
> > example of an SOF client would be an IPC test client that
> > floods the DSP with test IPC messages to validate if the
> > serialization works as expected. Multi-client support will
> > also add the ability to split the existing audio cards
> > into multiple ones, so as to e.g. to deal with HDMI with a
> > dedicated client instead of adding HDMI to all cards.
> > 
> > This patch introduces descriptors for SOF client driver
> > and SOF client device along with APIs for registering
> > and unregistering a SOF client driver, sending IPCs from
> > a client device and accessing the SOF core debugfs root entry.
> > 
> > Along with this, add a couple of new members to struct
> > snd_sof_dev that will be used for maintaining the list of
> > clients.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <
> > pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan at linux.intel.com
> > >
> > Co-developed-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh at linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh at linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  sound/soc/sof/Kconfig      |  19 ++++++
> >  sound/soc/sof/Makefile     |   3 +
> >  sound/soc/sof/core.c       |   2 +
> >  sound/soc/sof/sof-client.c | 117
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  sound/soc/sof/sof-client.h |  65 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  sound/soc/sof/sof-priv.h   |   6 ++
> >  6 files changed, 212 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 sound/soc/sof/sof-client.c
> >  create mode 100644 sound/soc/sof/sof-client.h
> 
> As you are creating new sysfs directories, you should have some
> documentation for them :(
Hi Greg,

We are not adding any sysfs entries in this series. 

Thanks,
Ranjani