linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: add SoundWire stream config/free callbacks

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Date:   Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:11:18 +0200
From:   Guennadi Liakhovetski <guennadi.liakhovetski@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        tiwai@...e.de, broonie@...nel.org, vkoul@...nel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, jank@...ence.com,
        srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org, slawomir.blauciak@...el.com,
        Bard liao <yung-chuan.liao@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rander Wang <rander.wang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Zhu Yingjiang <yingjiang.zhu@...ux.intel.com>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: add SoundWire stream
 config/free callbacks

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 08:53:06AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> Thanks for the review Guennadi
> 
> > > +static int sdw_config_stream(void *arg, void *s, void *dai,
> > > +			     void *params, int link_id, int alh_stream_id)
> > 
> > I realise, that these function prototypes aren't being introduced by these
> > patches, but just wondering whether such overly generic prototype is really
> > a good idea here, whether some of those "void *" pointers could be given
> > real types. The first one could be "struct device *" etc.
> 
> In this case the 'arg' parameter is actually a private 'struct snd_sof_dev',
> as shown below [1]. We probably want to keep this relatively opaque, this is
> a context that doesn't need to be exposed to the SoundWire code.

Right, that's why I proposed struct device and not struct snd_sof_dev, to not 
make it SOF-specific, then sdev could be obtained from dev_get_drvdata(). But 
yes, that's unrelated to this series.

Thanks
Guennadi