Re: [RFT PATCH v2 4/6] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845: move audio to separate file

[Caleb Connolly <caleb.connolly@linaro.org>]

On 20/01/2023 07:42, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 20/01/2023 00:24, Caleb Connolly wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 18/01/2023 10:34, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> Re-organize SDM845 sound components into separate, audio DTSI which
>>> should be included and customized by the SDM845 boards wanting audio.
>>> The DTSI includes:
>>> 1. WCD9340 codec node because it is not a property of the SoC, but board.
>>> 2. Common sound DAI links, shared with all sound cards.
>>
>> Hi Krzysztof,
>>
>> I know I already reported this on IRC, I thought I'd duplicate the info
>> here for completeness sake.
>>
>> Due to how the sound node is parsed the device numbers in alsa are
>> derived from the index of the sound/mmX-dai-link child nodes.
>>
>> For boards which use more than 3 FE's this causes breaking changes in
>> userspace, as the slim-dai-link and slimcap-dai-link nodes now come
>> before the other mmX-dai-link nodes, for example with my OnePlus 6
>> patches "aplay -l" shows:
>>
>> card 0: O6 [OnePlus 6], device 0: MultiMedia1 (*) []
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> card 0: O6 [OnePlus 6], device 1: MultiMedia2 (*) []
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> card 0: O6 [OnePlus 6], device 2: MultiMedia3 (*) []
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> card 0: O6 [OnePlus 6], device 5: MultiMedia4 (*) [] <-- 5 instead of 3
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> card 0: O6 [OnePlus 6], device 6: MultiMedia5 (*) []
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> card 0: O6 [OnePlus 6], device 7: MultiMedia6 (*) []
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>
>> This breaks the UCM configs shipped by postmarketOS and Mobian - though
>> none of it is "upstream".
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> 
>>
>> Would it be reasonable to add all 6 FE DAI's and then disable the unused
>> ones on a per-board basis?
> 
> 
> Or just drop the sound node from the audio DTSI, not sure if there are
> benefits in such case...

That sounds reasonable to me. I'd be happy to rebase my OnePlus 6 patch
on this.
> 
>>
>>>
>>> The Xiaomi Polaris, although includes WCD9340 codec, it lacks sound
>>> node, so it stays disabled.
>>>
>>> On all others boards not using audio, keep the Slimbus node disabled as
>>> it is empty.
> 
> Please trim your replies - there is a lot of unrelated content here and
> I don't know if I should keep scrolling to look for something or not.

Will do, thanks for pointing that out.
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 

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Kind Regards,
Caleb (they/them)