Re: [PATCH 05/11] ALSA: hda/cs35l56: Create sysfs files for factory calibration

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:13:16 +0200,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 12:58:15PM +0100, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> > On 16/10/2025 12:27 pm, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > This feels like it might be a better fit for debugfs or possibly
> > > configfs?  It's not really within the sysfs rules, and especially
> > > debugfs is a lot more relaxed about everything.
> 
> > debugfs is an easy change in the driver but more complex for the
> > tooling. Unlike sysfs there's no standard layout or naming convention
> > for the ASoC debugfs tree, so it's more troublesome to locate the amp
> > entries.
> 
> > ASoC creates a debugfs root by default if DEBUGFS is enabled. But HDA
> > doesn't have its own debugfs. There is an ALSA debugfs enabled by
> > CONFIG_SND_DEBUG, which is normally disabled. But enabling
> > CONFIG_SND_DEBUG has other side-effects, it enables more than debugfs.
> 
> > Or we could create a new debugfs node specifically for Cirrus Logic
> > directly in /sys/kernel/debug.
> 
> Dunno about Takashi but for this application I'd be happy for you to
> just put something in the root of debugfs.

I'm fine with debugfs root.  The current approach with sysfs looks too
generic for the need of this access, so I find debugfs would be a
better fit, too.


thanks,

Takashi