[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: codecs: make PCM5102A codec selectable

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

>>> The PCM5102A codec entry in the Kconfig file lacks a title/description
>>> to make it selectable in menuconfig (since it has no dependent i2s/spi
>>> sub-modules like e.g. the pcm512x one).
>>
>> For my education, who uses this codec? it's not selected by any machine
>> driver?
> 
> This codec is needed to drive PCM5102A based i2s DAC. It can be found in
> several low cost I2S DAC break boards (I have a Polyvection one for
> example) and is generally used on SBC like the RPi, Odroid or Orange Pi.
> 
> On such devices, the driver will be selected via a proper declaration of
> the device in the device tree (e.g. in a custom dts file). See for
> example this issue I submitted to the Armbian project (together with a
> PR that patches this very same issue I described in this thread):
> 
>    https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/1798

Right, but what I was referring to is what is also suggested in that 
link, codecs are typically selected from a machine driver Kconfig, i.e.

  config SND_SUN4I_I2S
  	tristate "Allwinner A10 I2S Support"
+	depends on OF
  	select SND_SOC_GENERIC_DMAENGINE_PCM
  	select REGMAP_MMIO
+	select SND_SOC_PCM5102A

Your patch provides a means for a user to force the codec driver to be 
compiled in, but it doesn't help select the minimal config needed on a 
given platform. Anyways no real objections so

Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com>