On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 12:08:38PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:

match a reset chip powered on for the first time. What we should actually be doing is dumping these into the chip as the first thing we do at probe, and then they DO become the reasonable defaults.

Yes, this is eactly what I keep saying :/

The fix is keep using cache/regmaps or whatever, but it definitely would be an absolute requirement to reset the codec manually by putting in all the right register values before using the cache, which

You don't need to disable the cache at any point.