Re: [Sound-open-firmware] [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: Intel: avoid reverse module dependency

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:17 PM Pierre-Louis Bossart
<pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> >> Since this is going to be a really invasive change, and past
> >> experience shows that mucking with Kconfigs will invariably raise a
> >> number of broken corner cases, if there is support from
> >> Mark/Takashi/Jaroslav on this idea, we should first test it in the SOF
> >> tree so that we get a good test coverage and don't break too many eggs
> >> in Mark's tree. We would also need to concurrently change our CI
> >> scripts which are dependent on module names.
> >
> > I'm in favor of the way Arnd proposed.  It's more straightforward and
> > less code.
>
> Thanks Takashi for the feedback.
>
> Since yesterday I looked at another problem where we can have unmet
> dependencies between SoundWire (m) and SOF (y), so we probably need to
> rethink all this. We had similar issue with SOF and HDaudio before, it's
> time to revisit all this.

I think I ran into the same thing yesterday, and came up with a patch for
that one as well. I think it should be independent of the other one but I did
not try it by itself.

I'll send it along with a fixed version of the one in this thread, together the
have now survived a few hundred randconfig builds.

       Arnd