[alsa-devel] [PATCH 19/19] ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Set card long_name based on quirks

[Takashi Iwai]

On Sat, 12 May 2018 23:21:58 +0200,
Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> splitting platform and codec sides is a good idea (and something
> >> that was done by removing all platform mixer settings from the HiFi
> >> files)
> >>
> >> the problem remains that we have all these cdev strings that are
> >> hard-codec with a card name. Same when the match happens based on a
> >> DMI string, how would I know which of the platform settings to
> >> apply without querying what the platform driver is?
> >
> > Well the DMI string would uniquely identify a certain model device,
> > when we write the UCM file we should know what the platform + codec
> > for that device is and we can simply hardcode them, like in
> > my example above.
> >
> > But maybe I'm misunderstanding you?
> 
> For the same DMI device, you could either enable the existing
> intel/sst or SOF drivers. How would we handle UCM configs then? The
> DMI name would need to be augmented with a prefix, or we use
> *something* to add the references to SOF in the platform include and
> ALSA device string.

You've already added the flavor suffix to snd_soc_set_dmi_name(), so
they'll be unique, no?


Takashi