Just for my understanding, are you suggesting to set a device tree property to force a fixed behavior in the driver ?
Yes.
Why should we use a fixed behavior ?
WM8904 allows using both a DMIC and LINEIN, switching between one or the other and this is how we currently use it. Why the user should not be allowed to switch between DMIC and LINEIN ?
The device shares pins between the line inputs and the DMIC inputs so at least some of the configuration is going to be determinted at system design time, that will fix the usable values of at least one of the controls which ought to be reflected in the runtime behaviour.
In our design we use: - pin 1: DMIC_CLK - pin 24: LINEIN2R - pin 26: LINEIN2L - pin 27: DMIC_DATA we have no pins shared among DMIC and LINEIN. We have several customer switching between DMIC and LINEIN at runtime.
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I beg your pardon: it should be fixed now.