Re: [PATCH 2/3] ASoC: qcom: q6apm: add support for reading firmware name from DT

From: Dmitry Baryshkov
Date: Wed Jun 28 2023 - 16:01:13 EST


On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 at 22:40, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 10:33:16PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > On 28/06/2023 21:10, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > If the goal here is to put all the firmwares for a given board in a
> > > single place surely it would be better to factor this all out of the
> > > individual drivers so that they ask some helper for a directory to use
> > > for firmware? Adding these device specific firmware node properties
> > > doesn't seem to follow.
>
> > This quickly becomes overcomplicated. Some platforms use different firmware
> > naming structure. Some firmware goes into a generic location and other files
> > go into device-specific location. So having a generic helper doesn't really
> > help.
>
> That sounds like a job for symlinks surely?

Excuse me, but I don't understand the goal for such symlinks. In my
opinion (and more importantly, in the opinion of qcom maintainers),
firmware-name does the necessary job. It provides enough flexibility
and doesn't require any additional dances around.



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With best wishes
Dmitry