Re: [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: cs42l51: add soft dependency declaration

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 03:01:23PM +0000, Olivier MOYSAN wrote:
> On 10/2/20 5:41 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 05:29:04PM +0200, Olivier Moysan wrote:
> 
> 
> When configured as module, CS42L51 codec driver uses two modules
> snd-soc-cs42l51 and snd-soc-cs42l51-i2c.
> Add soft dependency on snd-soc-cs42l51-i2c in snd-soc-cs42l51,
> to allow smart module dependency solving.

Please fix your mail client, the formatting is completely broken -
there's nothing distinguishing quoted and new text and you've got lines
well over 80 columns.

> Doesn't the userspace tooling usually manage to figure this out from
> symbol usage?

> cs42l51.c does not use symbols from cs42l51-i2c.c, so cs42l51-i2c does not appear
> as a software dependency of cs42l51, for tools such as depmod.
> (cs42l51-i2c.c uses symbols from cs42l51.c,
> so there is a dependency in this way, but this does not help here)

But that's the dependency that exists and we want - the I2C driver is
what has the bus bindings in it and will be what we decide to load to
instantiate the device, that will then pull in the core code that it
needs.

> When enabling a sound card based on cs42l51, all required modules are loaded automatically,
> excepted snd-soc-cs42l51-i2c module. This one has to be inserted explicitely.

Whatever is going on here this patch is not addressing it.  Most likely
some ID tables are in the wrong file.

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