Re: [PATCH 2/3] ASoC: qcom: q6apm: add support for reading firmware name from DT

[Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>]

On 28/06/2023 21:10, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 07:57:38PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>> On 28/06/2023 14:53, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> Why not try a series of firmware names/locations generated using the
>>> identifying information for the card/system?  That way we don't have to
>>> put a filename in the ABI which has fun scaling issues.
> 
>> This is what was done by Srini in the initial (currently committed) version.
>> Unfortunately this easily results in the audio topology being separated from
>> the rest of the platform-specific firmware. For example, for the mentioned
>> X13s we already have a subdir under /lib/firmware/qcom and several
>> firmware-name DT properties pointing to the files in that subdir:
> 
>> $ grep firmware-name
>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp-lenovo-thinkpad-x13s.dts
>> 		firmware-name = "qcom/sc8280xp/LENOVO/21BX/qcdxkmsuc8280.mbn";
>> 	firmware-name = "qcom/sc8280xp/LENOVO/21BX/qcadsp8280.mbn";
>> 	firmware-name = "qcom/sc8280xp/LENOVO/21BX/qccdsp8280.mbn";
> 
>> This is not unique to the X13s, other Qualcomm boards also use full paths.
> 
> If the goal here is to put all the firmwares for a given board in a
> single place surely it would be better to factor this all out of the
> individual drivers so that they ask some helper for a directory to use
> for firmware?  Adding these device specific firmware node properties
> doesn't seem to follow.

This quickly becomes overcomplicated. Some platforms use different 
firmware naming structure. Some firmware goes into a generic location 
and other files go into device-specific location. So having a generic 
helper doesn't really help.

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With best wishes
Dmitry