linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] ASoC: qcom: add sdm845 sound card support

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 13:41:17 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
Cc:     Rohit kumar <rohitkr@...eaurora.org>, lgirdwood@...il.com,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com, plai@...eaurora.org,
        bgoswami@...eaurora.org, perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.com,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] ASoC: qcom: add sdm845 sound card support

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 01:34:42PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> On 09/07/18 12:14, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > +static const struct component_master_ops sdm845_ops = {
> > > +	.bind = sdm845_bind,
> > > +	.unbind = sdm845_unbind,
> > > +};

> > Why is this using the component stuff rather than the normal support for
> > finding the components of audio cards?

> Could you elaborate this please?
> Do you mean something like snd_soc_lookup_component()?  Or in general audio
> card binding during startup.

Just the normal audio card binding during startup.

> AFAIU, The issue with that mechanism or EPROBEDEFER is that it works only
> for first time.. for the second time(restart usecase) there are no hooks
> like bind/unbind.

This is not the case, the card will be unbound at the ASoC level when
any of the components are removed and then probed again when they
reappear.

> The reason why we chose to use component framework is because of bind and
> unbind functionality. Am more than happy to rework on this if there is
> already a alternative mechanism in ASoC which can provide this.

The component framework is a generalization of what ASoC does.

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