[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/3] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: fix missing machine device creation

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 03:41:08PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 11:54:38AM +0900, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > The UEFI BIOS does not create a machine entry for Linux devices
> > > so add a table style machine registration to fix this missing
> > > entry

> > How does this relate to the existing sst_acpi code?  This might be
> > clearer with a user...

> It is similar but sst_machines structure is entirely different. In Skylake
> case we only need machine entry name and rest of the information is coming

So what exactly is the "machine entry name" supposed to be here and why
don't we use any board specific information?

> from topology manifest data. I will try to move this as well to topology
> data later, but for now on upstream to get audio out from boards I need this
> patch :)

I'm not sure I entirely believe that this is going to work well in
practice TBH.

> I am not sure I follow the comment on user, the SKL driver here is user in
> this

There are no machines defined for this.
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