Re: [PATCH 1/5] ASoC: core: Add component pin control functions

[Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 05:32:26PM +0000, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> It's often the case that a codec driver will need to control its
> own pins. However, if a name_prefix has been applied to this codec it
> must be included in the name passed to any of the snd_soc_dapm_x_pin()
> functions.
> 
> The behaviour of the existing pin control functions is reasonable, since
> you may want to search for a fully-specified name within the scope of an
> entire card. This means that we can't apply the prefix in these functions
> because it will break card-scope searches.
> 
> Constructing a prefixed string "manually" in codec drivers leads to a lot
> of repetition of the same code.
> 
> To make this tidier in codec drivers this patch adds a new set of
> equivalent functions that take a struct snd_soc_component instead of a
> dapm context and automatically add the component's name_prefix to the
> given name. This makes it a simple change in codec drivers to be
> prefix-safe.
> 
> The new functions are not quite trivial enough to be inlines and the
> compiler won't be able to compile-away any part of them.
> 
> Although it looks somewhat inefficient to have to allocate a temporary
> buffer and combine strings, the current design of the widget list
> doesn't lend itself to a more optimized implementation - it's a single
> list of all widgets on a card and is searched linearly for a matching
> string. As pin state changes are generally low-frequency events it's
> unlikely to be a significant issue - at least not enough to rewrite the
> widget list handling just for this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---
>  include/sound/soc.h   |  25 +++++++
>  sound/soc/soc-utils.c | 199 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 224 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/sound/soc.h b/include/sound/soc.h
> index 795e6c4..a46d0774 100644
> --- a/include/sound/soc.h
> +++ b/include/sound/soc.h
> @@ -1718,4 +1718,29 @@ static inline void snd_soc_dapm_mutex_unlock(struct snd_soc_dapm_context *dapm)
>  	mutex_unlock(&dapm->card->dapm_mutex);
>  }
>  
> +extern int snd_soc_component_enable_pin(struct snd_soc_component *component,
> +					const char *pin);
> +extern int snd_soc_component_enable_pin_unlocked(
> +					struct snd_soc_component *component,
> +					const char *pin);
> +extern int snd_soc_component_disable_pin(struct snd_soc_component *component,
> +					 const char *pin);
> +extern int snd_soc_component_disable_pin_unlocked(
> +					struct snd_soc_component *component,
> +					const char *pin);
> +extern int snd_soc_component_nc_pin(struct snd_soc_component *component,
> +				    const char *pin);
> +extern int snd_soc_component_nc_pin_unlocked(
> +					struct snd_soc_component *component,
> +					const char *pin);
> +
> +extern int snd_soc_component_get_pin_status(struct snd_soc_component *component,
> +					    const char *pin);
> +extern int snd_soc_component_force_enable_pin(
> +					struct snd_soc_component *component,
> +					const char *pin);
> +extern int snd_soc_component_force_enable_pin_unlocked(
> +					struct snd_soc_component *component,
> +					const char *pin);
> +

I don't believe we need these extern's C defaults to external
linkage.

Thanks,
Charles