Were the above lines agreed or not? Do you see driver for master devices
or not? Greg was okay with as well as these patches but I am not okay
with the driver part for master, so I would like to see that removed.
Different reviewers can have different reasons.. I have given bunch of
reasons here, BUT I have not seen a single technical reason why this
cannot be done.
With all due respect, I consider Greg as THE reviewer for device/driver
questions. Your earlier proposal to use platform devices was rejected by
Greg, and we've lost an entire month in the process, so I am somewhat
dubious on your proposal not to use a driver.
If you want a technical objection, let me restate what I already mentioned:
If you look at the hierarchy, we have
PCI device -> PCI driver
soundwire_master_device0
soundwire_slave(s) -> codec driver
...
soundwire_master_deviceN
soundwire_slave(s) -> codec driver
You have not explained how I could possibly deal with power management
without having a driver for the master_device(s). The pm_ops need to be
inserted in a driver structure, which means we need a driver. And if we
need a driver, then we might as well have a real driver with .probe
.remove support, driver_register(), etc.
I really don't see what's broken or unnecessary with these patches.
I would also kindly ask that you stop using exclamation marks and what I
consider as hostile language. I've asked you multiple times, it's not
professional, sorry.
Regards
-Pierre
