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From: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Add new widget type for constructing DAPM graphs on DSPs.
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:00:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1496865651.31880.133.camel@loki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170607192304.thekfsvzy7mc7lgl@sirena.org.uk>

On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 20:23 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 03:44:42PM +0100, Liam Girdwood wrote:
> 
> > +	snd_soc_dapm_buffer,		/* DSP/CODEC internal buffer */
> > +	snd_soc_dapm_pipeline,		/* DSP/CODEC internal pipeline */
> > +	snd_soc_dapm_effect,		/* DSP/CODEC effect component */
> 
> What's the difference between a buffer and a pipeline, or between a
> pipeline and an effect?  We should have clear documentation, if they're
> different we're probably going to end up using them differently in the
> core at some point and if people use the wrong widget type it might end
> up breaking things.

Yes, that's a good point. I'll do a V2 that includes some documentation.

> 
> > +	snd_soc_dapm_codec,		/* FW/SW coder/decoder component */
> 
> Can we call this a fmt_conv or something?  CODEC is unfortunately a bit
> overloaded.

True, what about snd_soc_dapm_media_codec ? or _sw_codec ? or
_media_decoder ?

Liam

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-07 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-06 14:44 [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Add new widget type for constructing DAPM graphs on DSPs Liam Girdwood
2017-06-07 19:23 ` Mark Brown
2017-06-07 20:00   ` Liam Girdwood [this message]
2017-06-07 21:23   ` Pierre-Louis Bossart

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