Re: [PATCH 2/4] soundwire: introduce SDW_DEV_NUM_ALLOC_IDA_WAKE_ONLY

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

>>> This seems to be a consequence of Intel hardware decisions, so I guess
>>> best suited place for this is Intel controller, do we really want to
>>> have this in core logic?
>>
>> It's a valid objection.
>>
>> The reason why I added the alternate strategies in the core logic is
>> that the IDA and hybrid approach are just software-based with no
>> specific hardware dependencies. If QCOM or AMD wanted to use the
>> strategies contributed and tested by Intel, it'd be a two-line change on
>> their side.
>>
>> That said, it's likely that at some point *someone* will want to
>> constrain the device number allocation further, be it with ACPI/DT
>> properties or reading hardware registers. The device number is a
>> de-facto priority given the way we scan the PING frames, so some systems
>> may want to give a higher priority to a specific peripherals.
>>
>> This would push us to add a master ops callback to control the device
>> number allocation. It's a bit invasive but that would give the ultimate
>> flexibility. Reuse between vendors could be possible if 'generic'
>> callbacks were part of a library to pick from.
>>
>> I don't really have any objections if this vendor-specific callback was
>> preferred, it may be a bit early to add this but long-term it's probably
>> what makes more sense.
>>
>> I'll go with the flow on suggested recommendations.
> 
> Thanks, if it all one of the other two controller start using this, it
> would make sense to move it to core then, for now would be better to
> have this in specific driver

The code is much cleaner indeed that way.

I still have to work on a race condition if the codec driver probe
happens *after* the enumeration. In that case, the properties needed to
decide which allocation to use are not initialized yet.

We may need to either force the codec to re-enumerate with a ForceReset,
or to switch the device number. In theory the latter is straightforward
but there can be additional races if there are interrupts thrown just
before the device number change happens.