[alsa-devel] [PATCH v4 6/8] ASoC: compress: Add support for DAI multicodec

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 07/01/2014 06:25 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 03:49:51PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 07/01/2014 09:47 AM, Benoit Cousson wrote:
> And you should have cced me on this patch
>
>> [...]
>> for (i = 0; i < rtd->num_codecs; i++) {
>>> +		struct snd_soc_dai *codec_dai = rtd->codec_dais[i];
>>> +		/* check client and interface hw capabilities */
>>> +		snprintf(new_name, sizeof(new_name), "%s %s-%d",
>>> +			 rtd->dai_link->stream_name, codec_dai->name, num);
>>
>> We may need to rethink how to do the naming for multiple CODEC DAI
>> links here. This implementation will just keep overwriting new_name
>> with each loop iteration and end up using the last one. Vinod may
>> have some insights.
>
> I am intrugued on how we do this for pcms with multi-codec support.
>
> Looking at the patch series I dont think the soc_pcm_new() has been updated
> (please point out if i missed, it is late in night)
> Shouldnt this be updated for pcm too?
>
> I would suggest makes sense is to keep appending the codec name for the
> dai-link. But yes keep a check on the size. Unless we have better ideas.
>

This is what the patch series does for normal PCMs

  	snprintf(new_name, sizeof(new_name), "%s %s-%d",
-		rtd->dai_link->stream_name, codec_dai->name, num);
+		rtd->dai_link->stream_name,
+		(rtd->num_codecs > 1) ?
+		"multicodec" : rtd->codec_dai->name, num);