Re: [PATCH v4] soundwire: intel: move to auxiliary bus

[Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>]

Thanks Vinod for your feedback,

>> If you look at the *existing* code, we don't handle any "resources" with the
>> platform devices, we use the platform_device_info.data to pass the link
>> information. It's a void pointer. We do not touch the resource field in the
>> platform_device_into at all.
> 
> Yes that is true I dont disagree on that part. My ask here is to make it
> better, it can be followed up after this but I would at least like to
> agree on the direction.

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>> That's it. We did not change anything else, all the other fields are
>> identical. We are only changing the TYPE of device and the interfaces for
>> probe/remove but using the same information and the same device hierarchy.
> 
> The move in itself is okay but I dont think that should be the end goal.

What we suggested in this patch is only an iso-functionality change. I 
believe from Greg's and your feedback that there is no objection on that 
small step.

This is not the end-goal indeed. The second step would be to remove the 
intel_init.c file. I fully agree with you Vinod that this can be moved 
into the SOF driver, and we could do this in a follow-up step. We can 
also improve the partition between 'context' used by the child driver 
and information passed by the parent on SHIM registers and bases.

I think we'd need to agree on the details of the second step, Bard and I 
can work on a proposal, but I don't see a disconnect on the direction to 
simplify the interface. That's the right thing to do.