[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: fsl-asoc-card: add wm8960 support

[Nicolin Chen]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:39:00PM +0800, Zidan Wang wrote:

> > > > > -	priv->dai_link[0].codec_dai_name = codec_dev->name;
> > > > > +	if (strstr(codec_dev->name, "wm8960"))
> > > > > +		priv->dai_link[0].codec_dai_name = "wm8960-hifi";
> > > > > +	else
> > > > > +		priv->dai_link[0].codec_dai_name = codec_dev->name;
> > 
> > > > What happens to the codec_dev->name over here so that you need to
> > > > specify the name?
> > > In wm8960 codec driver, codec dai name is "wm8960-hifi".
> > > Using codec_dev->name will cauce register card failed.
> > 
> > When we meet a problem, the first response should be to find out
> > the route cause instead of fixing it with a work around directly.
> > If the codec_dev->name caused a card registration failure, you
> > need to find out why. There must be something wrong with its codec
> > driver or this sound card driver.
> > 
> The root cause is that the codec dai name is not always be codec_dev->name.
> It will cause the sound card can't find such codec dai. You can refer to
> function snd_soc_find_dai().
> For wm8962 the codec dai name and codec_dev->name are "wm8962". But some
> other codec like wm8960, it may have different codec dai name.

Then we should fix this by finding out a better way to get the dai
name. I will look into it tomorrow.