Hey, On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:07:09 +0100, Kai Vehmanen wrote: > > Takashi and others, this patch is a follow-up to the earlier thread about > > hdac link management: > > https://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2021-January/179715.html > > > > We have absolutely no calls from sound/pci/hda/ to hdaudio_ext.h before > > this patch, so I'm wondering if this is the right approach to take. > > An obvious drawback by this patch is that it'll make the hda-ext code > always loaded whenever it's enabled, no matter whether it's really > used or not. > > Maybe adding a new callback (link) in hdac_bus_ops can help? hmm, that's true. Let me try adding a separate callback and resend for review. That will look cleaner in hda_codec.c. >> It does seem to be the natural path forward and mimics what was done in >> e.g. hdac_hdmi. But we want to keep reusing driver code for all HDA >> implementations, so adding hdac-ext support to codec drivers seem like the >> best path. > > Yes, I find we're heading to the right direction. Ack, thanks for the quick review. br, Kai