Re: [PATCH v2] ASoC: mediatek: common: handle NULL case in suspend/resume function

[Trevor Wu <trevor.wu@mediatek.com>]

On Fri, 2021-09-10 at 11:23 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 05:26:13PM +0800, Trevor Wu wrote:
> 
> > When memory allocation for afe->reg_back_up fails, reg_back_up
> > can't
> > be used.
> > Keep the suspend/resume flow but skip register backup when
> > afe->reg_back_up is NULL, in case illegal memory access happens.
> 
> It seems like it'd be better to just allocate the buffer at probe
> time
> and fail in case we can't get it, I'd be surprised if there's many
> platforms using this hardware that don't also end up suspending and
> resuming.

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your suggestion.
I agree it's better to allocate the memory at probe time.
I think we can still keep the implementation in the suspend/resume
function as a fallback solution if user doesn't allocate the memory in
probe function.

In the new mediatek SOCs, regcache has been used to handle register
backup.
Do I need to add the buffer allocation on probe function to the
platform in which mtk_afe_suspend and mtk_afe_resume are used?

Thanks,
Trevor