Hi Mark, Cezary, Pierre-Louis. Thank you for your feedbacks. > > It seems explanation of design of the avs-driver had some shortcomings. > > The AVS people (like me) are to blame for this :S > > > > The exact opposite is true - we do not want 1:N component:card relation. OK, thanks, nice to know. Sorry to my misunderstanding, my brain was biased. > If you have any data connection or loopbacks between cards, or shared > clocks, then you have DAPM events that are interesting to propagate. > Power management is not 'simple' or even 'simpler' to me. Yes, I agree about this. > I am not saying having multiple cards is a bad idea, just that there are > a number of technical opens with strong implications on the > implementation and scaling. Thanks. My basic idea is step-by-step small refactoring can remove limitation and/or add expansion. I don't want to have big change of course, and I'm not thinking that we can create "perfect solution" at the beginning. Thank you for your help !! Best regards --- Kuninori Morimoto
