Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] ASoC: tda998x: add a codec to the HDMI transmitter

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 07:37:21PM +0200, Jyri Sarha wrote:
> On 12/29/2014 06:52 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >So, I'm not seeing *any* interest here from any other HDMI users.  This
> >is a continuing theme with HDMI patches and is really very concerning,
> >everyone appears to be working in their own bubbles coming up with their
> >own things and ignoring everyone else's work - what little review I'm

> I have not seen any significant new development since v7 of these patches.
> My comments for v6 were mostly[1] addressed and I can live with these
> changes, even develop this approach further if it gets merged.

OK, so this sort of feedback is really useful - even a qualified
Reviwed-by is useful.  Total silence could mean anything.

> However, as a general note I see a need for a generic ASoC hdmi codec
> abstraction and I don't think this is generic enough. More of the audio
> specific implementation and HDMI standard specific things should be pushed
> away from the hdmi encoder driver (tda998x in this case) to the generic ASoC
> side hdmi codec driver (or library).

This is something I'm expecting, yes - what I don't have is a clear
enough picture of how consistent the different hardware is in how it
models these things.

> [1] I personally do not like the hdmi_get_cdev() approach. I would rather go
> with only a library for registering from ASoC codec component under the HDMI
> encoder device or a completely separate device with only a reference to the
> HDMI encoder.

It does seem somewhat complicated, yes.  I don't know if matches idioms
for DRM somehow?

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