[alsa-devel] [PATCH 6/8] ASoC: dapm: Implement and instantiate DAI widgets

[Vinod Koul]

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 14:10 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 21:56 -0800, Mark Brown wrote:
> > In order to allow us to do smarter things with DAI links create DAPM
> > widgets which directly represent the DAIs in the DAPM graph. These are
> > automatically created from the DAIs as we probe the card with references
> > held in both directions between the widget and the DAI.
> > 
> > The widgets are not made available for direct instantiation by drivers,
> > they are created automatically from the DAIs.  Drivers should be updated
> > to create stream routes using DAPM maps rather than by annotating AIF
> > and DAC widgets with streams.
> > 
> > In order to ease transition to this model from existing drivers we
> > automatically create DAPM routes between the DAI widgets and the existing
> > stream widgets which are started and stopped by the DAI widgets, though
> > the old stream handling mechanism is still in place.  This also has the
> > nice effect of removing non-DAPM devices as any device with a DAI
> > acquires a widget automatically which will allow future simplifications
> > to the core DAPM logic.
> > 
> > The intention is that in future the AIF and DAI widgets will gain the
> > ability to interact such that we are able to manage activity on
> > individual channels independantly rather than powering up and down the
> > entire AIF as we do currently.
> > 
> > Currently we only generate these for CODECs, mostly as I have no systems
> > with non-CODEC DAPM to integrate with. It should be a simple matter of
> > programming to add the additional hookup for these.
> If I understood right, then instead of creating AIF/ADCs for codec paths
> now we need to create the DAI widget for each path and associate that
> with the DAI, right.
> I think I understood former (creating the dai widgets), but how does it
> get linked to the DAIs?
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~Vinod