The SoundWire Linux devices are created purely based on information
provided by platform firmware (e.g. ACPI DSDT table). When the kernel
finds a matching driver for the device address (_ADR), the probe will
initialize required data structures and initialize pm ops.
When the SoundWire link is started at a later point, the physical
devices will synchronize on the SoundWire frames and report their
attachment status, thereby triggering the enumeration and
initialization of device registers.
This two-step solution was a conscious design decision to allow e.g. a
driver to use sideband mechanisms to turn power rails on. This can
also allow OEMs to describe multiple platforms with the same DSDT
table, the devices that are not physically present in hardware.
The drawback of this approach is a bit of confusion, with more devices
than are actually present in hardware. This results in 'ghost'
devices, for which the driver successfully probes, but that will not
generate any traffic on the bus. suspend-resume transitions are
handled by drivers, and skipped when the devices are not physically
present.
This patch provides a work-around for a second-level of confusion in
platform firmware: some platforms only use HDaudio links, but
nevertheless expose SoundWire 'ghost' devices. This results in error
messages in the Intel driver while trying to suspend/resume these
links. The simplest solution is to add a boolean status flag to skip
all suspend/resume/wake sequences if the link was never started.
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210818024954.16873-3-yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
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