[alsa-devel] [TLV320AIC23] [AM3517EVM][AUDIO] codec name mis-match in soc_bind_dai_link

[Koyamangalath, Abhilash]

While trying to register the sound card on the AM3517EVM (which uses a tlv320aic23 codec), with the 2.6.37 kernel I get the following error message:
	CODEC tlv320aic23-codec not registered
This is despite having gotten previously:
	Registered codec 'tlv320aic23-codec.2-001a'
I realized that there was a names' mismatch in soc_bind_dai_link():
	In fn soc_bind_dai_link:1249:codec->name is tlv320aic23-codec.2-001a, dai_link->codec_name is tlv320aic23-codec

The 2-001a is the <i2c_bus>-<i2c_address> pair as defined in arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-am3517evm.c:
	static struct i2c_board_info __initdata am3517evm_i2c2_boardinfo[] = {
       {
               I2C_BOARD_INFO("tlv320aic23", 0x1A),
       },
This is the device name of the i2c client set automatically by i2c_new_device() when __process_new_driver() on the device is called, in response to a i2c_register_driver() request.
Now, all devices with names in <i2c_bus>-<i2c_address> are assumed to be i2c clients by snd_soc_register_codec() and so <driver_name>.<dev_name> is the name supplied to the codec.
Now, if I change the dai-link->codec_name to force-match by appending 2-001a to the codec_name in (sound/soc/omap/am3517evm.c):
	static struct snd_soc_dai_link am3517evm_dai = {
			:
      	  .codec_name = "tlv320aic23-codec.2-001a ",
			:
	};

the registration proceeds smoothly and I can see device nodes getting created. 
Since now there is no way to provide a customized i2c device name to a client device (or so I believe), what could be the best solution to this problem ?

-Abhilash
PS: OMAP3 evm does not have this problem as the audio codec twl4030 is on platform bus, I believe.

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