[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2 4/5] ALSA: hda: add component support

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Wed Dec 10 01:27:10 PST 2014


On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 06:30:40PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 9 Dec 2014 11:19:34 +0100,
> Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:41:18AM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> > > Register a component master to be used to interface with the i915
> > > driver. This is meant to replace the current interface which is based on
> > > module symbol lookups.
> > > 
> > > Note that currently we keep the existing behavior and pin the i915
> > > module while the hda driver is loaded. Using the component interface
> > > allows us to remove this dependency once support for dynamically
> > > enabling / disabling the HDMI functionality is added to the driver.
> > > 
> > > v2:
> > > - change roles between the hda and i915 components (Daniel)
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak at intel.com>
> > 
> > Ok, I think this is a good foundation to build on and later on add more
> > pieces to fix suspend/resume and similar.
> > 
> > But we also need to discuss how to merge this. My proposal is that I do a
> > special topic branch with just the patches in this series and then pull
> > that into drm-intel-next and send a pull request for it to Takashi for
> > sound-next, too. That way we don't have any depencies between drm and
> > sound for the 3.20 merge window.
> > 
> > Testing by intel QA is also solved this way since sound-next is already
> > pulled into drm-intel-nightly. And both gfx and sound QA use that branch.
> > 
> > Takashi/Dave, does this sound good?
> 
> Yes, this sounds good.  Maybe it'd be good to base the branch on
> 3.19-rc1 so that all changes are covered?

Guess that depends when the patches are ready for merging and whether
there's conflicts. I have sound-next in my integration tree so will
noticed and can act accordingly.
-Daniel
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