[alsa-devel] spi codec names in machine drivers

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 20:32, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 20:30, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:15:14PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> but back to the original question, how is it working today ? :)  i
>>> want to make sure the current Blackfin machine drivers are written
>>> correctly, and the boards i readily have access to are either AC97 or
>>> I2C, so it's difficult for me to boot up and verify myself.
>>
>> This is the common problem with SPI codecs, they're very rarely used so
>> not frequently tested.
>
> so i need to scrounge up some addon boards and figure out the answer myself ;)

for the curious, the answer is as i feared ... the codec_name needed
in the machine driver is "spi<busnum>.<csnum>".  the codec name should
not be in that string.  unlike the i2c version which should be
"<codec>.<busnum>-<id>".
-mike