Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: tas2562: Add firmware support for tas2563

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 02:20:29PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> On 6/9/20 1:47 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > That's really not very idiomatic for how Linux does stuff and seems to
> > pretty much guarantee issues with hotplugging controls and ordering -
> > you'd need special userspace to start up even if it was just a really
> > simple DSP config doing only speaker correction or something.  I'm not
> > sure what the advantage would be - what problem is this solving over
> > static names?

> IMO having a static name is the problem. It is an inflexible design. 
> Besides the firmware-name property seems to be used in other drivers to
> declare firmwares for the boards.

> But if no one is complaining or submitting patches within the codecs to be
> more flexible with firmware then I can just hard code the name like other
> drivers do.

I'm not *completely* opposed to having the ability to suggest a name in
firmware, the big problem is making use of the DSP completely dependent
on having a DT property or doing some non-standard dance in userspace.

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