[alsa-devel] Need general idea how to architect driver for multi-codec board

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:23:03PM -0700, Caleb Crome wrote:

>    You previously indicated that I can instantiate multiple tlv320aic33
> drivers.  Can you please give me a clue how to do that?  I've been staring
> at this for days, and I still don't really get how it's supposed to be done.

With things like this it's always useful to look for other examples of
whatever it is you're doing - there's systems like speyside and rx51 in
mainline.

> fails because there are already controls with those names, like "Right PGA
> Mixer" etc.  The alsa layer doesn't seem to allow multiple registrations of
> the same control.  How do I give each instantiation a unique identifier?

Set up a snd_soc_codec_conf for each CODEC and assign a name_prefix to
it.  

>  Since the tlv320aic33 has about 80 controls, I'm going to end up with over
> 600 controls in alsamixer.

Yes.