Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.15-rc1

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:37:42 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 08:34:09AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > And I believe there are a few more possible cleanups / fixes in the
> > messy Intel ASoC Kconfigs.  For example, SND_SOC_INTEL_SST is almost
> > always set.  The only exception is via SND_SST_ATOM_HIFI2_PLATFORM.
> > But all machine drivers using Atom Hifi2 do set SND_SST_IPC_ACPI,
> > which also requires SND_SOC_INTEL_SST.
> 
> I'm not 100% convinced that the recent changes away from just having the
> only user selectable options be the board ones have really helped that
> much.

Yeah, now it resulted in a mixture of selects and depends, which is a
bad sign.  I'm not against this kind of reorganization but we need to
sort out more.

> Though transitioning back would probably just create more misery.
> It's a real shame that ACPI doesn't have standards for the machine
> descriptions here like DT does, it'd cut down on the amount of stuff
> that needs configuring.

True.  Although I don't think ACPI is the center of the mess in this
case, but rather too many kconfigs is it.

In soc/intel/*, we have the following entries:

as non-selectable ones:
- SND_SST_IPC
- SND_SST_IPC_PCI
- SND_SST_IPC_ACPI
- SND_SOC_INTEL_COMMON
- SND_SOC_INTEL_SST
- SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_FIRMWARE
- SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_ACPI
- SND_SOC_ACPI_INTEL_MATCH

and the selectable ones:
- SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_TOPLEVEL
- SND_SOC_INTEL_HASWELL
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BAYTRAIL
- SND_SST_ATOM_HIFI2_PLATFORM
- SND_SOC_INTEL_SKYLAKE

And yet, there are tons of machine drivers as selectable kconfigs:
- SND_SOC_INTEL_MACH
- SND_MFLD_MACHINE
- SND_SOC_INTEL_HASWELL_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BDW_RT5677_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BROADWELL_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BYT_MAX98090_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BYT_RT5640_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BYTCR_RT5640_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BYTCR_RT5651_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_CHT_BSW_RT5672_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_CHT_BSW_RT5645_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_CHT_BSW_MAX98090_TI_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BYT_CHT_DA7213_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BYT_CHT_ES8316_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BYT_CHT_NOCODEC_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_SKL_RT286_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_SKL_NAU88L25_SSM4567_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_SKL_NAU88L25_MAX98357A_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BXT_DA7219_MAX98357A_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_BXT_RT298_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_KBL_RT5663_MAX98927_MACH
- SND_SOC_INTEL_KBL_RT5663_RT5514_MAX98927_MACH


We should begin with thinking of which entries (and layer) to be
selectable, and which not.


Takashi