Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] HACK: ASoC: Tolerate N-cpus-to-M-codecs links

[Martin Povišer]

> On 25. 4. 2022, at 15:46, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 03:11:14PM +0200, Martin Povišer wrote:
>>> On 25. 4. 2022, at 14:55, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> I am surprised that doesn't otherwise explode TBH - at the very least
>>> I'd expect it to show two PCMs to userspace which if I'm understanding
>>> your description correctly isn't really what's going on.
> 
>> I fill in a single snd_soc_dai_link, it exposes a single PCM and works
>> like a charm. That is as long as I patch the playback/capture check in
>> question.
> 
>> I read that to be the clear intention of ASoC code: a DAI link becomes
>> one snd_soc_pcm_runtime.
> 
> Yes, so long as you boil it down to a single link it works fine but the
> bit on top of the binding where you tie the two CPU DAIs to what is
> actually exposed is all in code.  The reason this stuff isn't filled in
> is that connecting the thing that applications see to the physical links
> isn't at all obvious and needs at least some driver sitting in the
> middle to make the links - I'd imagine there's a DSP sitting there which
> probably has quite a bit of flexability about how the various hardware
> components available are actually related.  This makes figuring out what
> to do with the relationship between the multiple CPU DAIs hard.

I get the gist. Anyway unless you tell me otherwise I will assume I need
to move to DPCM with the platform/machine driver.