Re: [PATCH] ASoC: qdsp6: q6apm: use dai link pcm id as pcm device number

[Srinivas Kandagatla]

On 29/06/2023 16:43, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 10:24:04AM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> > For some reason we ended up with a setup without this flag.
> > This resulted in inconsistent sound card devices numbers which
> >   are also not starting as expected at dai_link->id.
> >   (Ex: MultiMedia1 pcm ended up with device number 4 instead of 0)
>
> Why is this a problem?

In existing Qualcomm setup the backend pcm are added first, which 
results in frontend pcms getting pcm numbers after this.

For example: with 3 backend dailinks in DT we have frontend pcm start at 
3. Now if we add new backend dai-link in DT we now have frontend pcm 
start at 4.

This is a bug in qualcomm driver.

> > With this patch patch now the MultiMedia1 PCM ends up with device number 0
> > as expected.
> >
> > Fixes: 9b4fe0f1cd79 ("ASoC: qdsp6: audioreach: add q6apm-dai support")
> > Cc: <Stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Won't this be an ABI change?  That seems like it'd disrupt things in
> stable.
Yes, but this is a real bug. without fixing this also results in abi(pcm 
number) change when we add new backend dai-link. I have also sent fix 
for UCM to handle this.


--srini