Re: [PATCH 07/15] ASoC: SDCA: Rely less on the ASoC component in IRQ handling

["Liao, Bard" <yung-chuan.liao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/9/2025 4:56 PM, Charles Keepax wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 09:42:20AM +0800, Liao, Bard wrote:
>> On 9/8/2025 10:43 PM, Charles Keepax wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 01:56:57PM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 06:27:40PM +0800, Liao, Bard wrote:
>>>>> On 9/5/2025 10:31 PM, Charles Keepax wrote:
>>>>>> -int sdca_irq_data_populate(struct snd_soc_component *component,
>>>>>> +int sdca_irq_data_populate(struct device *dev, struct regmap *regmap,
>>>>>> +			   struct snd_soc_component *component,
>>>>>>  			   struct sdca_function_data *function,
>>>>>>  			   struct sdca_entity *entity,
>>>>>>  			   struct sdca_control *control,
>>>>>>  			   struct sdca_interrupt *interrupt)
>>>>>>  {
>>>>>> -	struct device *dev = component->dev;
>>>>>
>>>>> Previously, we assume 'component' will never be null.
>>>>>
>>>>>>  	const char *name;
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> +	if (!dev && component)
>>>>>
>>>>> But now we test 'component'. If we don't assume 'component' is not null
>>>>> any more, we could test 'component' at the very beginning of this function.
>>>>
>>>> Good spot, that was missed when moving from an older version of
>>>> the code. I will get that fixed up.
>>>
>>> Apologies I had slightly misinterpretted this, and thought you
>>> meant we were dereferencing component before testing it in
>>> sdca_irq_data_populate, but we arn't.
>>
>> No, my question is about whether component can be NULL.
> 
> The expectation would be component can not be NULL in
> sdca_irq_populate(), but it could be NULL inside
> sdca_irq_data_populate(), if called from somewhere else.
> 
>> Understood. I had the question because the change below.
>>
>> +	interrupt->dev = dev;
>> +	if (!regmap && component)
>> +		interrupt->function_regmap = component->regmap;
>> +	else
>> +		interrupt->function_regmap = regmap;
>>
>> If both regmap and component are null, the interrupt->function_regmap
>> will be NULL. Is it valid?
> 
> Ok... yeah I see. I guess it depends on the IRQ handler that
> ultimately gets registered. In most cases I would expect the
> handler to need a regmap, however, we don't really validate
> any of the data that is purely for the handler. For example we
> don't validate function/entity/control either, we check dev for
> NULL because it is used for devm allocation of the name string,
> not because it is data for the handler. I think doing it this
> way saves us making assumptions, once we start doing so we start
> to constraint what can be done through the API.

Thanks for explanation. I got it now.


> 
> Thanks,
> Charles
>