[PATCH] ASoC: meson: implement driver_name for snd_soc_card in meson-card-utils

[Jerome Brunet]

On Sun 17 Oct 2021 at 16:00, Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Implement driver_name to provide an alternative to card_name for userspace
> configuration of Amlogic audio cards.
>
> Suggested-by: Matthias Reichl <hias at horus.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt at gmail.com>
> ---
> The meson AIU/AXG drivers currently require alsa confs based on the board
> model name which is unique to each board. This is very flexible for audio
> use-cases, but not very maintainable for distros with a single use-case
> that need to support a large number of different Amlogic boards. Using a
> driver name to match the card conf instead of card/model name reduces the
> number of confs needed in the LibreELEC (Kodi) distro from 41 to 2.
>
>  sound/soc/meson/meson-card-utils.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/meson/meson-card-utils.c b/sound/soc/meson/meson-card-utils.c
> index 415cc0046e4b..29b0174f4b5c 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/meson/meson-card-utils.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/meson/meson-card-utils.c
> @@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ int meson_card_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	priv->card.owner = THIS_MODULE;
>  	priv->card.dev = dev;
> +	priv->card.driver_name = dev->driver->name;
>  	priv->match_data = data;

I was preparing something similar to help with alsa-ucm so

Acked-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet at baylibre.com>

>  
>  	ret = snd_soc_of_parse_card_name(&priv->card, "model");