[alsa-devel] [PATCH 5/5] ASoC: tpa6130a2: Make DAPM registration optional, and direct interface

[Peter Ujfalusi]

On Tuesday 30 November 2010 16:30:13 ext Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:00:04PM +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> > Users can choose to not add the DAPM routes provided by the
> > amp driver, but use the direct enable/disable interface
> > from machine driver with SND_SOC_DAPM_HP's event callback.
> > In some cases this method must be used to make the audio
> > path pop noise free.
> 
> Is there any situation where it would undesirable to do this?  If not
> it'd seem better to just make the driver do this always.

You mean to not have DAPM widgets/routes in the tpa6130a2 driver, and only have 
a function, which can be used to turn on/off the amp?
The original [1] (first version) of the tpa6130a2 driver only had DAPM_HP 
widget. It has been changed based on the comments.

> > +int tpa6130a2_stereo_enable(int enable)
> > +{
> 
> It'd be much nicer if this took a CODEC as an argument - even if the
> implementation doesn't actually use it yet it'd be better to have an
> interface which has an idea that there may be multiple instances of the
> device.

Sure, I will do that.

[1]
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-October/022034.html

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