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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
Cc: lgirdwood@gmail.com, perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.com,
	robh@kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: tas2562: Add firmware support for tas2563
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:29:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200610102920.GC5005@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <014b85b5-677b-569a-4eb2-74526d3f00bc@ti.com>

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On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 02:20:29PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> On 6/9/20 1:47 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > That's really not very idiomatic for how Linux does stuff and seems to
> > pretty much guarantee issues with hotplugging controls and ordering -
> > you'd need special userspace to start up even if it was just a really
> > simple DSP config doing only speaker correction or something.  I'm not
> > sure what the advantage would be - what problem is this solving over
> > static names?

> IMO having a static name is the problem. It is an inflexible design. 
> Besides the firmware-name property seems to be used in other drivers to
> declare firmwares for the boards.

> But if no one is complaining or submitting patches within the codecs to be
> more flexible with firmware then I can just hard code the name like other
> drivers do.

I'm not *completely* opposed to having the ability to suggest a name in
firmware, the big problem is making use of the DSP completely dependent
on having a DT property or doing some non-standard dance in userspace.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-10 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-09 17:28 [RFC PATCH 0/2] TAS2563 DSP Firmware Loader Dan Murphy
2020-06-09 17:28 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: tas2562: Add firmware support for tas2563 Dan Murphy
2020-06-09 17:31   ` Mark Brown
2020-06-09 17:35     ` Dan Murphy
2020-06-09 17:58       ` Mark Brown
2020-06-09 18:06         ` Dan Murphy
2020-06-09 18:47           ` Mark Brown
2020-06-09 19:20             ` Dan Murphy
2020-06-10 10:29               ` Mark Brown [this message]
2020-06-10 14:12                 ` Dan Murphy
2020-06-10 14:28                   ` Mark Brown
2020-06-17 22:04                   ` Rob Herring
2020-06-18 10:57                     ` Mark Brown
2020-06-09 17:28 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] ASoc: tas2563: DSP Firmware loading support Dan Murphy
2020-06-09 17:50   ` Mark Brown
2020-06-12 17:30     ` Dan Murphy
2020-06-12 17:46       ` Mark Brown
2020-06-09 17:52 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] TAS2563 DSP Firmware Loader Mark Brown
2020-06-09 18:07   ` Dan Murphy
2020-06-09 18:16     ` Mark Brown

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