Re: [PATCH] ASoC: qdsp6: q6apm: use dai link pcm id as pcm device number

[Srinivas Kandagatla]

On 29/06/2023 18:42, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 06:33:09PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> > On 29/06/2023 16:43, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 10:24:04AM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>
> > > > For some reason we ended up with a setup without this flag.
> > > > This resulted in inconsistent sound card devices numbers which
> > > >    are also not starting as expected at dai_link->id.
> > > >    (Ex: MultiMedia1 pcm ended up with device number 4 instead of 0)
>
> > > Why is this a problem?
>
> > In existing Qualcomm setup the backend pcm are added first, which results in
> > frontend pcms getting pcm numbers after this.
>
> > For example: with 3 backend dailinks in DT we have frontend pcm start at 3.
> > Now if we add new backend dai-link in DT we now have frontend pcm start at
> > 4.
>
> > This is a bug in qualcomm driver.
>
> Why is this an actual problem rather than just being a bit ugly?  What
> is the negative consequence of having a PCM with this number?

Yes, it is ugly but also breaks the existing UCM as the pcm device 
numbers keep changing.
Which is why I refereed it as bug in the driver.

--srini