netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] ASoC: SOF: Introduce descriptors for SOF client

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Date:   Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:08:18 -0500
From:   Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@...el.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Cc:     parav@...lanox.com, tiwai@...e.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com, fred.oh@...ux.intel.com,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, dledford@...hat.com,
        broonie@...nel.org, jgg@...dia.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        kuba@...nel.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com, shiraz.saleem@...el.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, kiran.patil@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] ASoC: SOF: Introduce descriptors for SOF client



>>>>> +config SND_SOC_SOF_CLIENT
>>>>> +    tristate
>>>>> +    select ANCILLARY_BUS
>>>>> +    help
>>>>> +      This option is not user-selectable but automagically handled by
>>>>> +      'select' statements at a higher level
>>>>> +
>>>>> +config SND_SOC_SOF_CLIENT_SUPPORT
>>>>> +    bool "SOF enable clients"
>>>>
>>>> Tell users what "SOF" means.
>>>
>>> This option can only be reached if the user already selected the topic-level option. From there on the SOF acronym is used. Is this not enough?
>>
>> Yes, that's enough. I didn't see it. Sorry about that.
> 
> Huh. I still don't see that Kconfig option.
> Which patch is it in?
> 
> I only saw patches 1,2,3 on LKML.

The Sound Open Firmware (SOF) driver is upstream since 2019, see 
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/sound/soc/sof/Kconfig

What was shared in these patches is just an evolution to make the driver 
more modular to handle of 'subfunctions' with the auxiliary bus.

we'd love to hear your feedback if you think the help text can be 
improved. Thanks!