I have a Geode board with integrated PCI CS5535 sound card, and I'll be using an external ADAU1761 codec as an aux_dev (mixer and probably DSP).

Until now I defined the ADAU as a dummy sound card, just to be able to use its mixer.

I guess there's a cleaner solution to that, which I suspect involves bridging SoC and PCI codecs (I think avoiding to call snd_device_new in the PCI codec and moving it to a SOC card would be a good start...).

Should I try that, or stick to the dummy soc implementation?

Thank you.