[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: add bindings for ZTE zx-aud96p22 audio codec

Shawn Guo shawnguo at kernel.org
Wed Jun 21 15:22:47 CEST 2017


On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 03:33:52PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:11:32AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 05:16:06PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > If there's an external power amplifier this is a separate chip to this
> > > CODEC and should therefore be separately controlled and integrated as
> > > part of the machine integration.
> 
> > Yes, that should be the best.  But we do not have a particular machine
> > driver for our platform, and we are using simple-audio-card driver
> 
> You should be switching to the of-graph card now.

Thanks for the info.  Will do.

> > instead.  I'm not sure if it's generic enough to patch simple-audio-card
> > driver support this pa-gpios, so chose to fold this quick change in the
> > codec driver.
> 
> Having a separate amplifier is a completely normal thing, and no matter
> how unusual something is it's obviously not OK to hack one driver to
> support a completely different device.

Okay, I will drop it from codec driver, and try to support it in
audio-graph-card with separate patch later.

Shawn


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