[alsa-devel] [RESEND RFC PATCH 0/3] ucm: Add support for component devices

[Liam Girdwood]

On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 16:01 +0800, mengdong.lin at linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Mengdong Lin <mengdong.lin at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Sound cards are defined by machines. And off-soc codecs and DSPs embedded
> in DSP can be taken as the components and resued by different machines/
> sound cards. This series allows codec and SOC vendors to install UCM
> configuration files for a specific codec or DSP, and sound card verb
> files can just include these conf files of components, and trigger enable/
> disable sequence defined by the component devices.
> 
> Component devices will not be exposed to applications for backward
> compatibility. So audio servers like PulseAudio and CRAS still only see
> the machine devices.

The intention here is that the sound server will load the UCM
configuration based on the sound card name in []. I have patches to
improve this for Intel based machines which tend to all use the platform
name....sending shortly.

Liam