[alsa-devel] Default enabling of mixer controls

[Aggarwal, Anuj]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brown [mailto:broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:09 PM
> To: Aggarwal, Anuj
> Cc: alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Default enabling of mixer controls
> 
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 07:54:00PM +0530, Aggarwal, Anuj wrote:
> 
> > 	/* Enable Analog Left Capture Route AUXL */
> > 	reg = codec->read(codec, TWL4030_REG_ANAMICL);
> > 	reg |= TWL4030_AUXL_EN;
> > 	codec->write(codec, TWL4030_REG_ANAMICL, reg);
> 
> > After that, if I do a get on Analog Left Capture Route AUXL (or the
> other),
> > I am seeing that it has been turned ON. However, when I try to capture,
> > It doesn't work. I have to disable it first and then re-enable it to
> > capture properly.
> 
> Hrm, you'll be missing some internal DAPM state updates.  Currently the
> most direct way to do that would be to go through the actual control
> interface and there's not a particularly nice way of doing that that
> from the kernel that I'm aware of.
> 
> Is this not something you can have user space do?
[Aggarwal, Anuj] Since this was by default enabled in my earlier codec driver, I wanted to make the change transparent to the end user. However,
since the same can be done from user space too, it should not be a problem for my customer.