[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/7] ASoC: Fix cards getting stuck in a powered state.

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 06:46:07PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:

> This problem can arise if the card contains at least one widget-less DAPM
> context.

No, this is getting silly.  We need to just make DAPM mandatory for all
contexts - they get essentially no testing from people doing active
development and the special casing they require is just a constant
source of fragility.

For CODECs we can easily add some widgets for them based on the DAI, for
cards we should just shove a random widget in there with the name of the
card, it doesn't need to be wired up to anything.