linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] ASoC: simple-card: Add DT documentation for multi-DAI links

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Message-ID: <20140317164339.GR11706@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:43:39 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr>
Cc:	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@...escale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] ASoC: simple-card: Add DT documentation for
 multi-DAI links

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:30:05PM +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> There may be many couples of CPU/CODEC DAI links.
> The example 2 is extracted from the Cubox DT.

Oh, here's some documentation - please include the documentation
before the code, without the documentation the reader is going to have
no idea what the code is supposed to be implementing.

> +  There may be one or many couples (simple-audio-card,cpu, simple-audio-card,codec)
> +  (see example 2).

This doesn't mention how they're matched up.

> +sound {
> +	compatible = "simple-audio-card";
> +	simple-audio-card,name = "Cubox Audio";
> +
> +	simple-audio-card,cpu@0 {		/* I2S - HDMI */
> +		sound-dai = <&audio1 0>;
> +		format = "i2s";
> +	};
> +	simple-audio-card,codec@0 {
> +		sound-dai = <&tda998x 0>;
> +	};
> +
> +	simple-audio-card,cpu@1 {		/* S/PDIF - HDMI */
> +		sound-dai = <&audio1 1>;
> +	};
> +	simple-audio-card,codec@1 {
> +		sound-dai = <&tda998x 1>;
> +	};

So, this is not exactly pretty as a binding.  I would expect to see the
links explicitly represented in the DT so you see the two DAIs in each
link grouped into a container, the above isn't very easy to read and as
Jyri says this lack of clarity also causes practical problems in that
there's nowhere to place link specific parameters.

I think what I'd expect to see here is that the simple card can either
be a container with a link in it directly or a container of links.

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