netdev - Re: [net-next v4 10/12] ASoC: SOF: Introduce descriptors for SOF client

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Message-ID: <aace4c95-fe72-1fd8-f768-3a0e5a160292@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 May 2020 16:05:20 -0500
From:   Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        davem@...emloft.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
        Fred Oh <fred.oh@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next v4 10/12] ASoC: SOF: Introduce descriptors for SOF
 client



> Maybe if you can present some diagram or something, because I really
> can't understand why asoc is trying to do with virtual bus here.

instead of having a 1:1 mapping between PCI device and a monolithic 
card, we want to split the sound card in multiple orthogonal parts such as:

PCI device
   - local devices (mic/speakers)
   - hdmi devices
   - presence detection/sensing
   - probe/tuning interfaces
   - debug/tests

Initially we wanted to use platform devices but Greg suggested this API 
is abused. We don't have a platform/firmware based enumeration, nor a 
physical bus for each of these subparts, so the virtual bus was suggested.

Does this help?