Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] ASoC: qcom: add sdm845 sound card support

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Jul 09 2018 - 08:41:35 EST


On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 01:34:42PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> On 09/07/18 12:14, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > +static const struct component_master_ops sdm845_ops = {
> > > + .bind = sdm845_bind,
> > > + .unbind = sdm845_unbind,
> > > +};

> > Why is this using the component stuff rather than the normal support for
> > finding the components of audio cards?

> Could you elaborate this please?
> Do you mean something like snd_soc_lookup_component()? Or in general audio
> card binding during startup.

Just the normal audio card binding during startup.

> AFAIU, The issue with that mechanism or EPROBEDEFER is that it works only
> for first time.. for the second time(restart usecase) there are no hooks
> like bind/unbind.

This is not the case, the card will be unbound at the ASoC level when
any of the components are removed and then probed again when they
reappear.

> The reason why we chose to use component framework is because of bind and
> unbind functionality. Am more than happy to rework on this if there is
> already a alternative mechanism in ASoC which can provide this.

The component framework is a generalization of what ASoC does.

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