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SubjectRe: [RFC 1/5] soundwire: bus_type: add sdw_master_device support
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:19:51PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On 28-04-20, 08:37, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:01:44AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > > > > That is not true for everyone, it is only true for Intel, pls call that
> > > > > out as well...
> > > >
> > > > Why is it not true for everyone? How else do you get the pm stuff back
> > > > to your hardware?
> > >
> > > The rest of the world would do using the real controller device. For
> > > example the soundwire controller on Qualcomm devices is enumerated as a
> > > DT device and is using these...
> > >
> > > If Intel had a standalone controller or enumerated as individual
> > > functions, it would have been a PCI device and would manage as such
> >
> > If it is not a standalone controller, what exactly is it? I thought it
> > was an acpi device, am I mistaken?
> >
> > What is the device that the proper soundwire controller driver binds to
> > on an Intel-based system?
>
> The HDA controller which is a PCI device. The device represent HDA
> function, DSP and Soundwire controller instances (yes it is typically
> more than one instance)

Then those "instances" should be split up into individual devices that a
driver can bind to. See the work happening on the "virtual" bus for
examples of how that can be done.

A platform device better not be being used here, I'm afraid to look at
the code now...

greg k-h

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