[PATCH 2/4] ASoC: dt-bindings: qcom: sm8250: Document "pin-switches" and "widgets"

Stephan Gerhold stephan at gerhold.net
Tue Dec 14 15:20:47 CET 2021


Some sound card setups might require extra pin switches to allow
turning off certain audio components. There are two real examples for
this in smartphones/tablets based on MSM8916:

  1. Analog speaker amplifiers connected to headphone outputs.

     The MSM8916 analog codec does not have a separate "Line Out" port
     so some devices have an analog speaker amplifier connected to one
     of the headphone outputs. A pin switch is necessary to allow
     playback on headphones without also activating the speaker.

  2. External speaker codec also used as earpiece.

     Some smartphones have two front-facing (stereo) speakers that can
     be also configured to act as an earpiece during voice calls. A pin
     switch is needed to allow disabling the second speaker during
     voice calls.

There are existing bindings that allow setting up such pin switches in
simple-card.yaml. Document the same for Qcom sound cards.

One variant of example 1 above is added to the examples in the DT
schema: There is an analog speaker amplifier connected to the HPH_R
(right headphone channel) output. Adding a "Speaker" pin switch and
widget allows turning off the speaker when audio should be only played
via the connected headphones.

Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan at gerhold.net>
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,sm8250.yaml   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,sm8250.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,sm8250.yaml
index e50964c54bb9..4bfda04b4608 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,sm8250.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,sm8250.yaml
@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ properties:
     $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
     description: User visible long sound card name
 
+  pin-switches:
+    description: List of widget names for which pin switches should be created.
+    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string-array
+
+  widgets:
+    description: User specified audio sound widgets.
+    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/non-unique-string-array
+
   # Only valid for some compatibles (see allOf if below)
   reg: true
   reg-names: true
@@ -251,7 +259,15 @@ examples:
         reg-names = "mic-iomux", "spkr-iomux";
 
         model = "msm8916";
+        widgets =
+            "Speaker", "Speaker",
+            "Headphone", "Headphones";
+        pin-switches = "Speaker";
         audio-routing =
+            "Speaker", "Speaker Amp OUT",
+            "Speaker Amp IN", "HPH_R",
+            "Headphones", "HPH_L",
+            "Headphones", "HPH_R",
             "AMIC1", "MIC BIAS Internal1",
             "AMIC2", "MIC BIAS Internal2",
             "AMIC3", "MIC BIAS Internal3";
-- 
2.34.1



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