Re: [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: amd: fix soundwire dependencies

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024, at 07:23, Mukunda,Vijendar wrote:
> On 20/02/24 11:43, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024, at 06:57, Mukunda,Vijendar wrote:
>>> On 19/02/24 15:08, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>>>> In normal configs, they should all either be built-in or all loadable
>>>> modules anyway, so this simplification does not limit any real usecases.
>>> Tested this patch. SOUNWIRE_AMD flag is not selected by default causing
>>> AMD SOF driver for ACP 6.3 platform is build without enabling SoundWire.
>> Yes, that is what I described. But as SOUNWIRE_AMD is a user visible
>> symbol, there is no problem in expecting users to enable it when they
>> have this hardware, and distros just enable all the drivers anyway.
>
> Want to set SOUNDWIRE_AMD flag by default, similar to Intel & Qcom
> platforms instead of explicitly enabling the Kconfig option.

Maybe use 'default SND_SOC_SOF_AMD_TOPLEVEL' then?

I don't think copying the mistake from the intel driver
is helpful, though I agree it would be nice to be consistent
between them.

As a general rule, you should not have a Kconfig symbol that
is both user visible and also selected by the drivers that
depend on it.

To avoid the dependency problems from coming back and keep
the complexity to a minimum, I think there are two logical
ways to handle soundwire:

a) keep the current drivers/soundwire/Kconfig contents and
   change all the 'select SOUNDWIRE_foo' to 'depends on'.

b) keep all the 'select SOUNDWIRE_foo' but drop the prompts,
   requiring that all drivers that use soundwire have the
   correct select statements, with the main CONFIG_SOUNDWIRE
   getting selected by the individual drivers.

    Arnd