linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] ALSA: hda/i915: Add an allow_modprobe argument to snd_hdac_i915

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Message-ID: <b50a04c9-23d2-83d5-37fa-642c85e3d32d@lankhorst.se>
Date:   Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:43:09 +0200
From:   Maarten Lankhorst <dev@...khorst.se>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@...el.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sound-open-firmware@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] ALSA: hda/i915: Add an allow_modprobe argument to
 snd_hdac_i915_init

Hey,

On 2023-08-12 10:21, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:08:32 +0200,
> Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/7/23 04:00, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>>> Xe is a new GPU driver that re-uses the display (and sound) code from
>>> i915. It's no longer possible to load i915, as the GPU can be driven
>>> by the xe driver instead.
>>>
>>> The new behavior will return -EPROBE_DEFER, and wait for a compatible
>>> driver to be loaded instead of modprobing i915.
>>>
>>> Converting all drivers at the same time is a lot of work, instead we
>>> will convert each user one by one.
>>>
>>> Changes since v1:
>>> - Use dev_err_probe to set a probe reason for debugfs' deferred_devices.
>>
>> You want the changes below the --- line ...
> 
> Note that there are subsystems preferring keeping the version change
> logs in the commit log (typically found in drm trees), although
> majority of subsystems (including sound) want rather cleaner logs,
> AFAIK.
Yeah, I usually maintain stuff in drm. :)

Cheers,
~Maarten