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

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 11:00:54PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> 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:

> > > 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.

The goal is to avoid adding a Linux specific ABI if we don't need one,
and to allow later adjustment of what's selected on the userspace side
more easily (eg, if a more specific firwmare is found).

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