[alsa-devel] [RFC don't apply] ASoC: Add support for optional auxiliary dailess codecs

[Peter Ujfalusi]

On Friday 26 November 2010 15:41:52 ext Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:35:48PM +0200, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> > Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi at nokia.com> wrote:
> > > If DAPM core knows which widget belongs to which component, than I see
> > > no real problem with this method. The DAPM would work just fine. The
> > > PCM operatins would only apply to component with DAI.
> > 
> > Actually these are already well separated in current ASoC. Like my RFC
> > patch didn't not need touch soc-dapm.c at all and efectively other
> > changes were around codec probing/removal and by not registering the
> > PCM.
> 
> That's pretty much where I'm coming from - we already have most of the
> infrastructure, we just need to get the devices into the system but once
> we do that we should be able to cope with everything already.

So, if let's say I rewrite the tpa6130a2 driver as DAIless CODEC driver, and 
connect to a system, where we already have a proper codec. What should I expect?
Can this work with 'reasonable' ;) amount of work (or non) on the core side?

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