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Message-ID: <913df216-d031-4681-957e-c9354da337ea@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:26:44 +0100
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To: Fei Shao <fshao@...omium.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
Trevor Wu <trevor.wu@...iatek.com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-sound@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ASoC: dt-bindings: mediatek,mt8188-mt6359: Update DAI
link node pattern
On 28/10/2024 12:12, Fei Shao wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 4:56 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 06:44:42PM +0800, Fei Shao wrote:
>>> The associated machine driver is not dependent on the format of DAI link
>>> node names. This means we are allowed to use more descriptive names
>>> instead of indices without impacting functionality.
>>>
>>> Update the binding to accept arbitrary DAI link names with a "-dai-link"
>>> suffix. This is the common pattern used by the target (MT8188) and other
>>> (MT8195, MT8186 etc.) MediaTek-based Chromebooks.
>>
>> We do not want arbitrary names. Why for example green-batman-dai-link
>> should be correct? The existing pattern looks wrong. Please read DT spec
>> and chapter about recommended names.
>
> At first I was thinking about regex like
> `^[a-z-]+(-[a-z]+)*-dai-link$` based on the DTS coding style guide,
> but your example is not suggesting that.
> and the name like "hs-capture-dai-link" was rejected, so it's not just
> about enumerating the names either.
> Or "^dai-link@[0-9a-f]+$"? But they don't tie to particular register
> addresses... or just for some pseudo indices?
> I could miss something about DAI links under the sound documentation.
> Still trying to figure it out.
You did not provide any reasoning why this has to be changed and why
usually preferred generic dai-link is not correct. Names are not
descriptive.
>
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Fei Shao <fshao@...omium.org>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> .../devicetree/bindings/sound/mediatek,mt8188-mt6359.yaml | 4 ++--
>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/mediatek,mt8188-mt6359.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/mediatek,mt8188-mt6359.yaml
>>> index 701cedfa38d2..2da34b66818f 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/mediatek,mt8188-mt6359.yaml
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/mediatek,mt8188-mt6359.yaml
>>> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ properties:
>>> name defined in the machine driver.
>>>
>>> patternProperties:
>>> - "^dai-link-[0-9]+$":
>>> + ".*-dai-link$":
>>
>> This breaks existing users.
>
> There's no existing users in upstream, and the only downstream user is
> the MT8188 Chromebook DT that I'm trying to upstream, which I can fix.
> This binding was upstreamed exclusively for that DT.
So you have entire commit msg to explain impact.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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