[alsa-devel] [PATCH 4/4] ASoC: tlv320dac33: Support for?turning off the codec in BIAS_STANDBY

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:10:14PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2010 12:56:37 ext Mark Brown wrote:

> > Then just use
> > the hooks in the normal audio stream bringup/teardown surely?  It's
> > possible that I'm missing something as a result of your list of use
> > cases but I'd expect this to flow fairly naturally from the normal call
> > flow.

> The thing is, that I want to handle the chip power in one place, and 
> dac33_set_bias_level is a really good place for that.

Sure, but it shouldn't need to be worrying about playback at all.

> At the time when pcm_prepare is called the codec is still in OFF.
> So I just postponed the dac33_prepare_chip call for later, when the codec 
> switches BIAS level.
> Than I enable the power and if there is a stream, than I do the preparation.
> Note: the BIAS level change is still within the pcm_prepare call chain...

Surely a much more straightforward solution to this is just to add a
post-DAPM prepare() callback to the DAI ops?  It seems like a perfectly
reasonable thing to have that callback and it means you can rely on the
existing mechanisms having taken care of the power for you.

> In this way I don't need to do any additional housekeeping while managing the 
> power of the codec.

My point here is that it seems like you need to do more housekeeping
than you should :)