[PATCH v1 1/3] sound: usb: Add vendor's hooking interface
Krzysztof Kozlowski
krzk at kernel.org
Fri Mar 25 19:47:01 CET 2022
On 24/03/2022 09:32, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 05:10:42PM +0900, Oh Eomji wrote:
>> In mobile, a co-processor can be used with USB audio to improve
>> power consumption. To support this type of hardware, hooks need to
>> be added to the USB audio subsystem to be able to call into the
>> hardware when needed.
>>
>> The main operation of the call-backs are: - Initialize the
>> co-processor by transmitting data when initializing. - Change the
>> co-processor setting value through the interface function. -
>> Configure sampling rate - pcm open/close - other housekeeping
>>
>> Known issues: - This only supports one set of callback hooks,
>> meaning that this only works if there is one type of USB controller
>> in the system. This should be changed to be a per-host-controller
>> interface instead of one global set of callbacks.
>
> Sorry, but this limitation alone means that this is not going to be
> able to be accepted. Almost all real systems have multiple USB
> controllers in the system and so, this will break in very bad ways on
> the majority of devices in the world.
>
> Please fix this up and make this per-USB-controller, as was
> requested the last time this series was published.
This is a v2 (not v1) and Greg asked this already:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/YiW6ZqnINsOSyN+z@kroah.com/
That time, it was left without an answer.
Ignoring feedback and resending does not help in getting patches
mainlined. :(
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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