Re: [PATCH 2/8] media: adv748x: add audio mute control and output selection ioctls

Alex Riesen
2020-03-13T10:26:16Z

Hi Hans,

Hans Verkuil, Fri, Mar 13, 2020 09:16:11 +0100:
> On 1/13/20 3:15 PM, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > This change implements audio-related V4L2 ioctls for the HDMI subdevice.
>
> This is really where things go wrong. These V4L2 audio ioctls are meant for
> old PCI TV tuner devices where the audio was implemented as audio jack outputs
> that are typically looped back to audio inputs on a (PCI) soundcard. And when
> these ioctls were designed ALSA didn't even exist.

I see. That was before my time :)

> Generally an hdmi driver will configure the i2s audio automatically, which is
> typically connected to the SoC and controlled by the ALSA driver of the SoC,
> but there may well be missing features (audio never got a lot of attention in
> hdmi receivers). So what I would like to know is: what features are missing?

Well, the audio is missing. The current adv748x driver does not export the
audio features of the device at all. There is no code to enable the I2S audio
output and it is disabled (all clock and the data lines) by default.

But, by now it seems to be clear that implementation of ALSA SoC DAI
interfaces is the way to support the audio.

And I am already slowly working on it.

> Anything missing can likely be resolved by adding HDMI audio specific V4L2 controls,
> which would be the right approach for this.
>
> So I would expect to see a proposal for V4L2_CID_DV_RX_AUDIO_ controls to be
> added here:
>
> https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis-new/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-dv.html

This seems to be an explicitly "digital video" control class. And it has no
control option for mute. Or did you mean a similarly structured new class for
"digital audio"?

This feels like an overkill for this particular driver...

Regards,
Alex