Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] ALSA: hdac_ext: add hdac extended controller

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 8 Jun 2015 21:02:59 +0530,
Vinod Koul wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:12:48AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > +struct hdac_ext_link {
> > > +	struct hdac_bus *bus;
> > > +	int index;
> > > +	void __iomem *ml_addr; /* link output stream reg pointer */
> > > +	u32 lcaps;   /* link capablities */
> > > +	u16 lsdiid;  /* link sdi identifier */
> > > +	char codec[HDA_MAX_CODECS][32]; /* codecs connectes to the link */
> > 
> > Do we need to keep the codec name string?  Isn't it just codec address
> > we'd like to check the match...?  If so, we may use bitmasks instead,
> > too.
> This is not for matching stuff (this is link structure and not codec)
> So we keep name of codec found on this link. When ASoC BE triggers we use
> codec name to find the link and use

But each codec name consists of just a few bits.  Why do you need to
keep each codec name string?


Takashi