From: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch series has been on the ice for the last couple of years. Mauro asked me to restart the discussion on this and see if we can make progress. I rebased the series to Linux 4.19. It has been surprisingly well preserved with one small merge conflict resolved in 0004. Media Device Allocator API to allows multiple drivers share a media device. Using this API, drivers can allocate a media device with the shared struct device as the key. Once the media device is allocated by a driver, other drivers can get a reference to it. The media device is released when all the references are released. - No changes to 0001,0002 code since the v7 referenced below. - 0003 is a new patch to enable ALSA defines that have been disabled for kernel between 4.9 and 4.19. - Minor merge conflict resolution in 0004. - Added SPDX to new files. References: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg105854.html Please review. I am sending this as RFC even though it has been tested several times prior to this non-event rebased v8. I ran sanity tests. Shuah Khan (4): media: Media Device Allocator API media: change au0828 to use Media Device Allocator API media: media.h: Enable ALSA MEDIA_INTF_T* interface types sound/usb: Use Media Controller API to share media resources Documentation/media/kapi/mc-core.rst | 37 +++ drivers/media/Makefile | 3 +- drivers/media/media-dev-allocator.c | 132 ++++++++++ drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-core.c | 12 +- drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828.h | 1 + include/media/media-dev-allocator.h | 53 ++++ include/uapi/linux/media.h | 25 +- sound/usb/Kconfig | 4 + sound/usb/Makefile | 2 + sound/usb/card.c | 14 ++ sound/usb/card.h | 3 + sound/usb/media.c | 320 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ sound/usb/media.h | 73 ++++++ sound/usb/mixer.h | 3 + sound/usb/pcm.c | 29 ++- sound/usb/quirks-table.h | 1 + sound/usb/stream.c | 2 + sound/usb/usbaudio.h | 6 + 18 files changed, 692 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/media/media-dev-allocator.c create mode 100644 include/media/media-dev-allocator.h create mode 100644 sound/usb/media.c create mode 100644 sound/usb/media.h -- 2.17.0