[alsa-devel] Question about soc_bind_aux_dev()

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 23 May 2019 03:01:10 +0200,
Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Takashi, again
> 
> > AFAIK, the binding with aux_dev->name was introduced later as a
> > fallback in case of no codec.  Through a quick glance at git log, the
> > commit f2ed6b07645e brought the behavior.  Other than that, the field
> > was used merely for some label, e.g. passed to
> > snd_soc_post_component_init().
> 
> soc_post_component_init() is using dai_link->name, not aux_dev->name.
> But, am I misunderstanding ?

It used to be called, but was removed by the commit above.

The author of the patch, Mengdong, should be able to give a better
answer about the use case of aux_dev->name.


thanks,

Takashi