[alsa-devel] It looks like snd-soc-rx51 only works as built-in, not as a module

[Måns Rullgård]

Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:51:11PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Mark Brown
>> > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:25:50PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Mark Brown
>> >> > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 05:59:57PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> >> >> It was not working for me, but it seems the problem was related to
>> >> >> mdev/udev; snd_soc_tlv320aic3x has to be loaded before snd-soc-rx51.
>
>> >> > That should not be required, the modules should be loadable in any
>> >> > order.
>
>> >> Are you sure? I recall having a similar discussion with Rusell King,
>> >> and the conclusion is that certain modules are supposed to be loaded
>> >> by udev at boot time, and it seems snd_soc_tlv320aic3x is one of them.
>
>> > I'm absolutely positive.  ASoC supports loading the modules in any
>> > order.  udev is supposed to load anything autoloadable at boot time,
>> > including I2C devices, but that's orthogonal to the order in which
>> > things actually get loaded - udev can randomly reorder things if it
>> > feels like it.
>
>> Yes, but udev loads snd_soc_tlv320aic3x, not snd-soc-rx51.
>
> That is compltelely orthogonal to what you were saying above about the
> ordering of module loading.
>
> The reason the driver is not loaded automatically is that the OMAP
> machine drivers have not been converted to platform devices.

I posted patches doing the conversion a long time ago (September?).  It
seems they got lost somewhere.

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