Re: [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: hda/hdmi: Add helper function to check if a device is HDMI codec

[Péter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/11/2023 15:18, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> +bool snd_hda_device_is_hdmi(struct hdac_device *hdev)
>> +{
>> +	int i;
>> +
>> +	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(snd_hda_id_hdmi); i++) {
>> +		if (snd_hda_id_hdmi[i].vendor_id == hdev->vendor_id)
>> +			return true;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	return false;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snd_hda_device_is_hdmi);
> 
> I'm afraid that this will bring unnecessary dependency on HDMI codec
> driver.

For HDMI support we anyways need HDMI code?

> IMO, it's better to add a bool flag is_hdmi to struct hdac_device, and
> let the HDMI codec driver setting it at the probe, instead.  Then we
> can save an extra exported symbol, too.

We only use a combined generic codec driver which just supports 'HDA'
codecs regardless of what type they are.

When things probed via ASoC/SOF I just could not find any other way to
access to this table inside of patch_hdmi.c.

We could sort of 'cheat' and look for a specific (I'm not sure if it is
Intel or HDA generic) mask: 0x4
It is used in Intel drivers to identify the display codec, so the HDMI/DP.
If the 0x4 is universal among all HDA platforms for HDMI/DP then I'm
more than happy to drop this patch, but I'm not sure about  that.

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Péter