[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 09/13] ASoC: The soc card can have auxiliary components

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 11/05/2015 10:59 AM, mengdong.lin at linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Mengdong Lin <mengdong.lin at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Machine drivers can set the name of one or more auxiliary components.
> And the ASoC core will find and probe the auxiliary components.
> 
> Machine drivers can use this to specify the components with topology.
> Then when the components are probed, topology info will be loaded to
> the core.

How is this different from the existing aux_devs?