Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of multiple bindings of components

From	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of multiple bindings of components
Date	2015-10-15 14:20 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:00:01AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:

> It was never intended that it is possible to bind a component to multiple
> cards. That it was possible was a bug that was overlooked and some people
> tried to do it which caused apparently random crashes later on, caused by
> the data structure corruption. This is why we added the check to catch this
> kind of mistake early and to avoid the crashes.

This is true, but I do think it's something that we should have some
story on supporting for some of this hardware that has a bunch of
channels in one IP block that can't really interact with each other.
It's going to make it a lot easier for people to think about the
hardware and how to describe it.

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[RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of multiple bindings of components Koro Chen <koro.chen@mediatek.com> - 2015-10-13 15:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of multiple bindings  of components Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2015-10-13 15:50 +0200
    Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of  multiple bindings of components Koro Chen <koro.chen@mediatek.com> - 2015-10-13 16:20 +0200
      Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of multiple  bindings of components Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2015-10-13 16:50 +0200
        Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of  multiple bindings of components Koro Chen <koro.chen@mediatek.com> - 2015-10-14 03:20 +0200
          Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of multiple  bindings of components Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2015-10-14 11:20 +0200
            Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of  multiple bindings of components Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-10-15 14:20 +0200
              Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of  multiple bindings of components Koro Chen <koro.chen@mediatek.com> - 2015-10-15 14:50 +0200
              Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of multiple  bindings of components Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> - 2015-10-15 15:30 +0200
                Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: Modify check condition of  multiple bindings of components Koro Chen <koro.chen@mediatek.com> - 2015-10-16 04:40 +0200

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