Date:   Tue, 7 Dec 2021 13:08:33 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To:     =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ry?= Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Cc:     alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: add the driver component name to the
 component struc
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 09:47:32AM +0100, K=F6ry Maincent wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > Why is one device registering multiple components in the first place?

> Because the sound components are more and more complex. Why they shouldn'=
t?

In what way are they more complex? =20

> It seems to be already the case:
> sound/soc/codecs/cros_ec_codec.c
> sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c
> sound/soc/mediatek/mt*/mt*-afe-pcm.c
> sound/soc/sunxi/sun4i-codec.c
> sound/soc/soc-utils.c

Quite a few (I think all?) of these are quite old and and are the result
of refactoring from pre-component code rather than modern drivers, it's
likely there is no concrete reason for them to behave as they do.

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