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

[Péter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/11/2023 12:48, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> Well, it is a bit more 'interesting' from that angle.
>> for patch two we needed:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sound/20231124124015.15878-1-peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Ouch, this kind of information has to be mentioned in the patch
> description.  Otherwise one would take only this series and face a
> problem easily.  I can imagine such a problem on the stable tree.

OK, I will update the commit message

>> I would rather not risk to move the hdac_hda as Intel only using address
>> 2 as HDMI indication - which I'm still not sure if it is Intel only or
>> generic HDA convention.
> 
> Sure, it doesn't sound right, either.
> 
> Can we then add DAPM widgets and routes later conditionally instead of
> having it in component driver definition?

The issue is with the DAIs. If I remove the dai registering from
hdac_hda_dev_probe() to be done in hdac_hda_codec_probe() then the probe
will not happen since we do not have the needed components/DAIs to probe
the card.

If we don't have HDMI then the machine driver will substitute it with
dummy-dai, but if we have HDMI then we are not going to probe at all.

It is a sort of chicken and egg situation, right?

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Péter