[alsa-devel] ASoC: wm9712: Microphone doesn't work: Mux handling broken?

[Christoph Fritz]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:51:31PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 02:15:56AM +0200, Christoph Fritz wrote:
> 
> > They refuse to change their Item0 because they are defined as
> > SND_SOC_DAPM_MUX without a correlating path->name so that
> > snd_soc_dapm_mux_update_power() (in sound/soc/soc-dapmc) doesn't
> > change anything.
> 
> A route into a mux without a path name (other than a supply) just isn't
> meaningful and I'm surprised it ever worked.
> 
> > It works in 2.6.33, but current kernel has different mux handling and
> > it seems that no one since cared that much about microphone support.
> 
> It's nothing to do with microphones really, it's more that AC'97 CODECs
> are rarely used with modern kernels as the boards that use AC'97 are
> mostly quite old and suffer performance issues with modern software
> stacks so newer kernels haven't been getting much testing with them.
> 
> > Mark, can you confirm this, purpose a fix or even come up with
> > a patch?
> 
> Just filling in the appropriate mux value in the relevant route should
> do the trick.  Looking at the code it looks like the widget isn't hooked
> into the audio routing map at all so I'm a little surprised.  I'm out of
> the office at the minute and so can't readily set up a test system
> myself.

Thanks Mark, I'm pretty interested in testing too :-)

 -- Christoph