[alsa-devel] [PATCH RESEND 1/2] ASoC: Intel: kbl: Remove option of choosing CH count based on pdata

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 11/30/17 5:15 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:44:43AM +0530, Naveen M wrote:
> 
>> Regarding the Query:
>> As Vinod mentioned, I'm working on Chrome OS user-space stack that uses
>> customized audio server "CRAS".
>> These patches are verified on a board that has only 2 dmics.
>>
>> Giving the control to CRAS, enables to select the desired dmic using
>> channel-map configuration in user-space.
>> Ex:Rear/Front mic selection for World & Front facing camera scenario
> 
> People do run non-ChromeOS installs on their Chromebooks so we can't
> just assume that there's nobody out there with a regular distro on this
> hardware - a user like this reported the problems with the ABI for
> topology files breaking for example.

Valid point indeed.