[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/8] ASoC: Add support for virtual switch controls

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 01:38:55PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 01/11/2013 01:19 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > going to affect everything else in the path).  I'd expect to see
> > something like this implemented by having a control that has a specified
> > value forced in the register while the control is enabled (kind of the
> > opposite of a supply).  This is a fairly common need for older parts
> > though it's unusual to see it on a new device.

> I think I want the opposite of what you just described. I want to be able to
> overwrite the control setting based on the power state.

Right, just a thinko though - you see the point though.

> In ASoC I modeled this by letting DAPM take care of mute controls. E.g. the
> mute control gets disabled if there is an active path from the DAC through
> the mixer to one of the outputs and gets disabled otherwise. This makes sure
> that when the DAC is powered down (when there is no active path from the DAC
> to any of the outputs) each mute control is also enabled. The virtual
> switches now allow disable a path from the DAC to the mixer, which in turn
> will cause DAPM to enable the mute control. This is similar to how the
> virtual enums already work.

Virtual enums do actually end up routing, that's not what a mute control
usually does.  You can do the above in the manner I suggested, just have
the register forced to a particular value when the DAC is disabled.
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