[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: alc5632: rename volume/switch contols for master and speaker volumes.

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 21:25, Mark Brown
<broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:50:05PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 23:39, Mark Brown
>
>> > This looks really suspicious, why are we renaming the line output as a
>> > speaker output?  This might be appropriate on your board but if the
>> > drivers aren't part of the CODEC it might not be appropriate on another
>> > board.
>
>> There are two main reasons:
>> 1) We are changing SPK_OUT_VOL which on the schematics marked as a
>> speaker, and we want to be as close as possible to the datasheet.
>> 2) We are tired to explain to users that the speaker volume controlled
>> by "Line Playback Volume" in alsamixer.
>
> The above both sound board specific.  What does the CODEC itself call
> these outputs?
SPK_OUT/SPK_OUTN
http://ac100.wikispaces.com/file/view/alc5632_mixer_path.PNG/251095266/alc5632_mixer_path.PNG

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