Re: [PATCH v9 09/34] ASoC: qcom: qdsp6: Introduce USB AFE port to q6dsp

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

>>>>> Specifically, the QC ADSP can support all potential endpoints that are
>>>>> exposed by the audio data interface.  This includes, feedback
>>>>> endpoints
>>>>> (both implicit and explicit) as well as the isochronous (data)
>>>>> endpoints.
>>>>
>>>> implicit feedback means support for capture. This is confusing...
>>>>
>>>
>>> I mean, a USB device can expose a capture path, but as of now, we won't
>>> enable the offloading to the audio DSP for it.  However, if we're
>>> executing playback, and device does support implicit feedback, we will
>>> pass that along to the audio DSP to utilize.
>>
>> Not following. Implicit feedback means a capture stream *SHALL* be
>> started. Are you saying this capture stream is hidden and handled at the
>> DSP level only? If yes, what prevents you from exposing the capture
>> stream to userspace as well?
>>
>> I must be missing something.
>>
> 
> My understanding is that with implicit feedback endpoints, it allows for
> another data endpoint in the opposite direction to be utilized as a
> feedback endpoint (versus having to expose another EP, such as in the
> case of explicit feedback).  For example, if we are enabling the
> playback path (and the device does have a capture data ep) then the data
> ep used for the capture path can be used.

That's right, so all the plumbing is enabled for the capture path...
Making a decision to discard the data is very odd, all the work has
already been done at lower levels, so why not expose the captured data?