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authorKuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>2019-01-18 05:20:41 +0300
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2019-01-18 22:14:43 +0300
commit62bc79d35ebb55451112979babea864975cfd16d (patch)
treef679b5ab9712803fbf9b18fa3035f0a0bd580278 /include/sound
parentf557d39a3cb8ea892dada232c51479ae3628cdee (diff)
downloadlinux-62bc79d35ebb55451112979babea864975cfd16d.tar.xz
ASoC: soc.h: add explanation of legacy/modern style of dai_link
Current ALSA SoC is assuming 1 CPU 1 Platform (= DMA) style system. Because of this background, it is directly using xxx_name / xxx_of_node / xxx_dai_name on dai_link. Let's call it as legacy style here. More complex style system like multi CPU multi Platform (= DMA) will coming. To supporting it, we can use snd_soc_dai_link_component on dai_link. Let's call it as modern style here. But current ALSA SoC can't support it so far. Thus, we need to have multi CPU / multi Codec / multi Platform style in the future on ALSA SoC. Currently we already have multi Codec support. Platform is starting to use modern style on dai_link, but still style only. Multi Platform is not yet implemented. And we still don't have multi CPU support on ALSA SoC, and not have modern style either. Currently, if driver is using legacy style Codec/Platform, it will be converted to modern style on soc-core. This means, we are using glue code for legacy vs modern style so far on ALSA SoC. We can fully switch to modern style on all drivers if ALSA SoC supported modern style for CPU, and then, legacy style code will be removed from ALSA SoC. Untile then, we need to keep both legacy/modern style and its glue code. This patch adds such future plan and background on soc.h Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/sound')
-rw-r--r--include/sound/soc.h36
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/sound/soc.h b/include/sound/soc.h
index e665f111b0d2..c31b6d122ff6 100644
--- a/include/sound/soc.h
+++ b/include/sound/soc.h
@@ -891,6 +891,18 @@ struct snd_soc_dai_link {
/* config - must be set by machine driver */
const char *name; /* Codec name */
const char *stream_name; /* Stream name */
+
+ /*
+ * cpu_name
+ * cpu_of_node
+ * cpu_dai_name
+ *
+ * These are legacy style, and will be replaced to
+ * modern style (= snd_soc_dai_link_component) in the future,
+ * but, not yet supported so far.
+ * If modern style was supported for CPU, all driver will switch
+ * to use it, and, legacy style code will be removed from ALSA SoC.
+ */
/*
* You MAY specify the link's CPU-side device, either by device name,
* or by DT/OF node, but not both. If this information is omitted,
@@ -906,6 +918,19 @@ struct snd_soc_dai_link {
* only, which only works well when that device exposes a single DAI.
*/
const char *cpu_dai_name;
+
+ /*
+ * codec_name
+ * codec_of_node
+ * codec_dai_name
+ *
+ * These are legacy style, it will be converted to modern style
+ * (= snd_soc_dai_link_component) automatically in soc-core
+ * if driver is using legacy style.
+ * Driver shouldn't use both legacy and modern style in the same time.
+ * If modern style was supported for CPU, all driver will switch
+ * to use it, and, legacy style code will be removed from ALSA SoC.
+ */
/*
* You MUST specify the link's codec, either by device name, or by
* DT/OF node, but not both.
@@ -919,6 +944,17 @@ struct snd_soc_dai_link {
unsigned int num_codecs;
/*
+ * platform_name
+ * platform_of_node
+ *
+ * These are legacy style, it will be converted to modern style
+ * (= snd_soc_dai_link_component) automatically in soc-core
+ * if driver is using legacy style.
+ * Driver shouldn't use both legacy and modern style in the same time.
+ * If modern style was supported for CPU, all driver will switch
+ * to use it, and, legacy style code will be removed from ALSA SoC.
+ */
+ /*
* You MAY specify the link's platform/PCM/DMA driver, either by
* device name, or by DT/OF node, but not both. Some forms of link
* do not need a platform.