Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Revert "use component prefix when checking widget names" | From | Richard Fitzgerald <> | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:17:26 +0100 |
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On 22/07/2021 10:55, Richard Fitzgerald wrote: > On 05/07/2021 17:50, Mark Brown wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 01:50:34PM +0100, Richard Fitzgerald wrote: >> >>> That commit breaks all users of the snd_soc_component_*_pin() functions >>> because it results in the prefix being added twice. It also breaks code >>> that correctly uses the snd_soc_dapm_*_pin() functions. >> >>> Use the snd_soc_component_*_pin() functions if you want the component >>> prefix to be prepended automatically. >> >>> Use the raw snd_soc_dapm_*_pin() functions if the caller has the full >>> name that should be matched exactly. >> >> I'm not sure the analysis of which function to use when is correct or >> what we want here (though it will work ATM), though looking again more >> closely at the patch it doesn't look entirely right either. The way >> this used to be done, and the way that older code will most likely >> assume things work, was that the DAPM functions would first try to match >> on the local DAPM context before falling back to doing a global match. >> This is what the fallback loop is intended to do, and the dapm functions >> are passing the "search other contexts" flag into dapm_find_widget(). >> >> I'd not expect the distinction you seem to expect between component and >> DAPM and we probably have a bunch of older drivers that aren't working >> correctly like the Realtek driver mentioned in the original fix. I >> think what needs to happen is that dapm_find_widget() needs to be >> checking both the prefixed and non-prefixed names, and that the >> component stuff shouldn't need to bother and just be a convenience >> wrapper for users that happene to have a component to hand. >> Alternatively we need to do an audit of all the non-machine drivers to >> switch them to use the component functions exclusively (and possibly >> some of the machine drivers as well), most of the CODEC users look to be >> a small number of Wolfson/Cirrus ones. >> > > I don't mind if someone wants to change the core dapm functions if that > is generally useful, providing that it also updates all callers of those > functions to still work. > > Changing the behaviour of core code to fix the Realtek driver without > updating other callers of those functions is a problem.
Just to point out this is breaking stuff right now. It's not just theoretical.
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