[alsa-devel] Accessing snd_soc_read/snd_soc_write directly for diagnostics

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 09:33:25AM +0800, Mike Crowe wrote:

> I know this is a strange request, however, for diagnostic purposes in our
> embedded system, we would like to talk directly to the codec registers of
> our sound chip, bypassing alsa.  I have the driver compiled into the kernel
> (not loaded as a module).

> Is it possible to create a program which can talk to the snd_soc_read and
> snd_soc_write functions directly?  I'm not sure if this is an option, but if
> it is, I'd appreciate a pointer to something similar to use as a guide.

This is provided by the codec_reg file in debugfs - mount debugfs and
look in the 'asoc' directory.  Note that there is also a codec_reg file
in sysfs but this is read only.

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