Re: [RFC 1/5] soundwire: bus_type: add sdw_master_device support

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Tue Apr 28 2020 - 02:50:03 EST


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)

Thanks
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~Vinod