On 02/17/2016 01:52 PM, Mengdong Lin wrote:
On 02/15/2016 10:22 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
On 02/15/2016 01:19 PM, Vaibhav Agarwal wrote:
Following patches are based on for-next branch from broonie tree. First 2 patches include changes in existing soc, core framework to prepare for adding support for dynamic DAI link addition/ removal
Patch 3 & 4 contains actual changes to enable dynamic DAI link support
NOTE: Currently, the code is tested on Pandaboad ES revB3 for playback usecase.
Can you outline how exactly that would work?
Thanks,
- Lars
In Agarwal's use case, it seems a removable codec driver can be registered after the sound card is registered. And the Pandaboard machine driver need to add new BE links brought by the new codec component, which will further trigger probing of the codec components.
How can the machine driver know a new codec component is registered automatically?
Can we add a notification ops like "new_component" to a soc card? A machine driver can implement this ops. So when a new component is registered to the ASoC core, all instantiated soc cards can get notified and the machine driver can check if the new component brings some new links to the soc card in this ops. e.g. the Pandaboard machine driver can add new BE links for the new codec.
Thanks Mengdong
Sorry, I missed the case that the codec component can be still be registered before the machine driver register the card. In this situation, the machine driver cannot get the notification.
I wonder if the machine driver can still predefine these links but flag them as "dynamically_registered". For such links, asoc core will not abort instantiating the card, i.e. the sound card will be created even if these links are not bound because lack of some DAIs (e.g. the DAIs of the codec component not registered yet).
Then when the missing component is added, the ASOC core will automatically check these the unbound links and bind them. When the component is unregistered, ASoC will try to remove the affected links and then remove the components.
Thus we may not need add new APIs or let the machine driver monitor when the codec component is registered.
Thanks Mengdong