RE: [PATCH 00/22] ASoC: rsnd: Add audio support for the Renesas RZ/G3E SoC

[John Madieu]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the feedback.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2026 5:22 PM
> To: John Madieu <john.madieu.xa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] ASoC: rsnd: Add audio support for the Renesas
> RZ/G3E SoC
> 
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 04:53:12PM +0100, John Madieu wrote:
> 
> > This series includes:
> >   - Clock driver support for audio clocks and resets
> >   - DT bindings update for DMA ACK signal field
> >   - IRQ chip extension for DMA ACK signal routing
> >   - RZ-DMAC driver updates for ACK signal support
> >   - R-Car Sound driver updates for RZ/G3E support
> >   - System suspend/resume support
> >   - Device tree nodes for RZ/G3E SMARC EVK
> 
> Are there any non-runtime dependencies between the various patches here?
> It's a fairly large series touching multiple subsystems, we'll need to
> work out how it gets merged.  It looks to be mainly ASoC but perhaps the
> other subsystem changes are independent and can just go via their tree?

The series contains the full chunk of patches for audio IP to work, so they
depend on each other for runtime to work. However, patches will go through
different trees and will eventually meet in linux-next or a release.

In addition to that, DMA (patch 06/22) has hard dependency on IRQ (path 05/22).

The merge strategy could be:

 * Patch 01, 03/22 => Clock
 * Patches 05-06 /22 => DMA
 * Patches 07-17/22 => ASoC
 * Patches 02, 18-22/22 => DT

Next time I'll take care of clarifying this in cover letter.

Regards,
John