[alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] ASoC: wm8741: Add differential mono mode support

[Sergej Sawazki]

Am 5. Mai 2015 15:57:31 MESZ, schrieb Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>:
>On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:19:38PM +0200, Sergej Sawazki wrote:
>
>> The mono mode of the device should not be confused
>> with the ALSA mono mode. If the device is in mono mode
>> it either plays the left (mono left mode) or the right (mono
>> right mode) channel.
>
>> My board has two of this DACs (left and right channel). 
>> The control names should be different, hence my
>> suggestion for the "Left" and "Right" prefixes.
>
>That's fine and totally normal.
>
>> Another approach would be to say that the machine
>> driver is responsible for mixer controls if the devices
>> are in mono mode. What do you think?
>
>Yes, the machine driver should do this - you may have left and right on
>your board but these configurations are for example often used with 5.1
>systems.

Good point. Thanks. I am going to resend the patch as v2.