Re: [PATCH 09/12] irqchip: cirrus: Add driver for Cirrus Logic CS48L31/32/33 codecs

[Charles Keepax]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 11:49:25AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 11:16:11AM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 08:00:10AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > 
> > > > ACPI gets to be a lot of fun here, it's just not idiomatic to describe
> > > > the internals of these devices in firmware there and a lot of the
> > > > systems shipping this stuff are targeted at other OSs and system
> > > > integrators are therefore not in the least worried about Linux
> > > > preferences.
> 
> > I would echo Mark's statement that going the way of moving this
> > into DT/ACPI will actually likely necessitate the addition of a
> > lot of "board file" stuff in the future. If the part gets used in
> > any ACPI systems (granted support is not in yet but this is not a
> > super unlikely addition in the future for cs48l32) we will need to
> > support the laptops containing the part in Linux and the vendors are
> > extremely unlikely to put internal CODEC IRQs into the ACPI tables.
> 
> It's a bit of a stronger issue than that in that it's not how ACPI is
> usually expected to work (it draws more from the PCI model where you
> just get a top level ID from the device and have to figure the rest out
> yourself).
> 

Hmm... yes ok true ACPI isn't going to put the elements of the
MFD in either so we would then need something to bind all those
in as well.

Thanks,
Charles