On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:54:37AM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
This patch adds a simple sound codec which is described by the DT. This codec may be used when no specific codec action is needed.
Hrm. I'm generally not enthusiastic about this sort of thing because it requires every user of the device to understand the capabilities of the device instead of being able to just say they have a device of type X - it seems better to type the data in once in a driver and then reference it. That said...
+Child 'capture' and 'playback' required properties: +- stream-name: name of the stream
What does this mean in the binding?
+Formats:
- "s8"
- "u8"
I'd cut this down to just the PCM formats for now - many of the formats you list there aren't terribly well defined even within ALSA, I don't think some of them have ever been used at all. A binding document should really document what things mean as well.
+Rates:
- 5512
- 8000
This shouldn't be a list of defined rates, it should allow any number, and it should support ranges since while some devices do enumerate specific rates simpler devices often just support a continuous range of rates.
--- a/sound/soc/generic/Kconfig +++ b/sound/soc/generic/Kconfig
CODEC drivers should go in codecs.
+#define DRV_NAME "simple-codec"
Just write the string in the one place where it is used.
+static char *format_tb[] = {
- "s8", "u8", "s16_le", "s16_be",
- "u16_le", "u16_be", "s24_le", "s24_be",
- "u24_le", "u24_be", "s32_le", "s32_be",
- "u32_le", "u32_be", "float_le", "float_be",
- "float64_le", "float64_be", "iec958_subframe_le", "iec958_subframe_be",
- "mu_law", "a_law", "ima_adpcm", "mpeg",
- "gsm", "", "", "",
- "", "", "", "special",
This seems a bit obscure and fragile - an explicit lookup table would be better I think.