Documentation: soundwire: Add documentation for multi link

Add example and documentation to describe multi link streams Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sanyog Kale <sanyog.r.kale@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shreyas NC <shreyas.nc@intel.com> Acked-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
mariux64 · Aug 27, 2018 · 8cf3f9c · 8cf3f9c
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@@ -101,6 +101,34 @@ interface. ::
 	+--------------------+                             |                |
 							   +----------------+
 
+Example 5: Stereo Stream with L and R channel is rendered by 2 Masters, each
+rendering one channel, and is received by two different Slaves, each
+receiving one channel. Both Masters and both Slaves are using single port. ::
+
+	+---------------+                    Clock Signal  +---------------+
+	|    Master     +----------------------------------+     Slave     |
+	|   Interface   |                                  |   Interface   |
+	|       1       |                                  |       1       |
+	|               |                     Data Signal  |               |
+	|       L       +----------------------------------+       L       |
+	|     (Data)    |     Data Direction               |     (Data)    |
+	+---------------+  +----------------------->       +---------------+
+
+	+---------------+                    Clock Signal  +---------------+
+	|    Master     +----------------------------------+     Slave     |
+	|   Interface   |                                  |   Interface   |
+	|       2       |                                  |       2       |
+	|               |                     Data Signal  |               |
+	|       R       +----------------------------------+       R       |
+	|     (Data)    |     Data Direction               |     (Data)    |
+	+---------------+  +----------------------->       +---------------+
+
+Note: In multi-link cases like above, to lock, one would acquire a global
+lock and then go on locking bus instances. But, in this case the caller
+framework(ASoC DPCM) guarantees that stream operations on a card are
+always serialized. So, there is no race condition and hence no need for
+global lock.
+
 SoundWire Stream Management flow
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