On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:37:47PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 04:10:31PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:03:07 +0200, > > Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > It's only the point if you can code it up properly, which from what I > > > read in that file, it isn't. > > > > An idea can fly without coding, too :) > > > > > Build the i915 DRM drivers as a module, load up the system, and then > > > try removing the i915 DRM module and see what happens to the audio part. > > > For starters, you have no protection what so ever against acomp->ops or > > > acomp->dev becoming NULL - it's hellishly racy. > > > > Yes, very likely. > > > > > Secondly, you reject the initialisation if acomp->ops isn't set, but you > > > allow acomp->ops to later become unset by the i915 DRM module being > > > removed. If you can cope with acomp->ops being unset at a random point > > > during the audio driver's use, why can't you cope with it being set at > > > some random point later? > > > > Setting/unsetting on the fly would be picky because the code does > > refcounting. Maybe an easier option is to inc/dec module usage > > count appropriately in use. > > > > > I don't think this code has been thought through at all. > > > > True, more hardening needed. I will try to fix this once I am done with Skylake drivers.. Plus adding new features like ELD in on my plan for this interface > In any case, this doesn't (and can't) solve the CEC problem, so it's not > a solution to the problem at hand. Sorry am not sure I follow the reasons for that, wouldn't CEC be another slave in such an interface? I though component fwk did allow us to have multiple slaves.. -- ~Vinod _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
