[PATCH] ASoC: core: Make sure component driver names are unique

Ranjani Sridharan ranjani.sridharan at linux.intel.com
Tue Apr 28 18:07:04 CEST 2020


On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 12:40 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:33:06PM -0700, Ranjani Sridharan wrote:
> 
> > When registering a component, make sure that the driver names
> > are unique. This will ensure that the snd_soc_rtdcom_lookup()
> > function returns the right component based on the name.
> 
> I would not expect driver names to be unique, you can have multiple
> instances of the same device on a board for example when two mono
> speaker drivers are used for stereo playback.
Maybe I misunderstood your comment in the previous thread then, Mark.

https://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2020-April/166665.html

Did you mean to say that the individual drivers should do this check
before registering multiple platform components to make sure they are
unique?

Thanks,
Ranjani



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