[alsa-devel] ASoC - Support for multiple components

[Liam Girdwood]

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 08:53 +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 13:46:07 ext Liam Girdwood wrote:
> > > I have one question:
> > > How the overlapping kcontrol names are going to handled (plain kcontrol
> > > and DAPM widget names)?
> > > What will happen if let say you have wm8711 _and_ wm8731 in the same
> > > card? Both have:
> > > "Master Playback Volume", "Master Playback ZC Switch" in
> > > snd_kcontrol_new, and also LOUT, ROUT, LHPOUT, RHPOUT, and
> > > SND_SOC_DAPM_MIXER("Output Mixer",..) in snd_soc_dapm_widget.
> > > 
> > > How the user will see these in one card?
> > 
> > A subsequent patch will add an ID qualifier to kcontrol names and DAPM
> > widget names. So we can have things like "Master Playback Volume.0" and
> > "Master Playback Volume.1" to differentiate the two separate controls.
> 
> I see. How these IDs will be added?
> Will does are given by the core automatically based on device load order, or 
> will the machine driver have the ability to specify the ID for a codec?
> 

The machine driver will be able to specify the ID.

> Another question: how the PCM interfaces will be seen when we have multiple 
> codec/dai in a card?
> I suppose we will have multiple PCMs in a card, when we have multiple codec 
> (multiple dai pairs)..?

Yes, that's correct. We already support many cards with multiple PCMs
atm. e.g. some WM9713 based cards already support 3 PCMs - 1 HiFi, 1
voice and 1 System.

Liam

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