linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] ASoC: msm8916: Add msm8916-wcd codec driver

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:19:19 +0100
From:	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, plai@...eaurora.org,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] ASoC: msm8916: Add msm8916-wcd codec driver



On 15/06/16 21:07, Kenneth Westfield wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:16:27AM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>>> On 14/06/16 16:59, Mark Brown wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 07:18:45PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>
>>> In theory there are 3 devices,
>>> one is the pmic-spmi driver, which provides regmap access to analog part of
>>> codec registers.
>>> second is syscon driver which provides regmap access to digital parts of
>>> codec to codec driver.
>>> third is the codec driver which uses both the above.
>>
>>> Codec registers range is just split into two, range 0x0- 0x200 sits in pmic
>>> address space and range 0x201 - 0x4ff in the SOC address space,
>>
>>> Are there any other better ways to model this kinda driver?
>>
>> Why not just have separate devices for each of the register maps?
>
> Srinivas,
>
> Mark has a good point.  Also, by having distinct devices and drivers;
> you should make use of ASoC's supporting wrappers for regmap accesses.

Yep, Let to try that and see how it looks.

thanks,
srini
>