Re: [PATCH RFC] ASoC: simple-card-utils: always find dlc using result of graph_get_dai_id()

[Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Laurentiu

Thank you for the patch


> If the number of ports is 1, the DAI name will be the one corresponding
> to dai_drv[0]. If ARRAY_SIZE(dai_drv) > 1, this means users are forced
> to specify all ports corresponding to the DAIs. For instance:
> 
> 	(it is assumed that ARRAY_SIZE(dai_drv) is 2)
> 
> 	[snippet taken from DTS]
> 	dai: my_dai@cafecafe {
> 		/* some more properties go here */
> 
> 		ports {
> 			#address-cells = <1>;
> 			#size-cells = <0>;
> 
> 			port@0 {
> 				reg = <0>;
> 				endpoint {
> 					/* specify remote here */
> 				};
> 			};
> 
> 			port@1 {
> 				reg = <1>;
> 				endpoint {
> 					/* specify remote here */
> 				};
> 			};
> 		};
> 	};
> 	[/snippet taken from DTS]
> 
> This is problematic when users don't want to connect all ports. In the
> above example, we're forced to specify all ports even if we want to
> "connect" only port@1, for instance, to a remote endpoint.
> 
> Generally speaking, assuming that ARRAY_SIZE(dai_drv) is N, and we want to
> connect a single port: i, we'd need to specify at least two ports in the
> DTS so that "of_graph_get_endpoint_count(node) > 1" is evaluated to true
> and the ID resulting from "graph_get_dai_id()" is taken into account.

?? I think this is not a issue ?


> Fix this by always using 1 as the number of arguments passed to
> snd_soc_get_dlc(). This way, snd_soc_get_dlc() will use the ID computed
> by graph_get_dai_id(), which takes the value of the 'reg' property into
> account if specified.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Mihalcea <laurentiu.mihalcea@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
> index dd414634b4ac..a592617e1b0e 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
> @@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ int graph_util_parse_dai(struct device *dev, struct device_node *ep,
>  	/* Get dai->name */
>  	args.np		= node;
>  	args.args[0]	= graph_get_dai_id(ep);
> -	args.args_count	= (of_graph_get_endpoint_count(node) > 1);
> +	args.args_count = 1;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * FIXME

It breaks existing many drivers / connections.

And I'm not 100% understand the situation.
Can I confirm ? your HW has N ports/DAIs, but want to use 2nd
port/DAI only for example. It is OK so far.
But you want to indicate only 1 port (= 2nd port) on DT,
and, your driver registers N DAI drivers anyway ?

If my assumption was correct, why you don't indicate N ports in DT ?
You need to do is not hack to utils, but update your driver to match
DT count and register driver count ?


Thank you for your help !!

Best regards
---
Kuninori Morimoto