[RFC PATCH 0/5] Apple Macs machine-level ASoC driver

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 01:44:06PM +0200, Martin Povišer wrote:

> > So previously each speaker would get two slots but now it just gets one?

> No the other way around. Previously (with the driver as it is RFCed),
> each speaker gets a single slot, and 'Left', 'Right' and ‘LeftRight'
> values of the routing control don't do anything different from each
> other (well except maybe 'LeftRight' lessens the volume due to how
> the chip handles the edge case of mixing down two channels from the
> same slot).

> With the new arrangement I am proposing, the two speakers in a left-right
> pair get both the same two slots, meaning they get to choose one of the
> two slots based on the 'Left' 'Right' value of their routing control.

Ah, I think the confusion here is that I'm using slot and channel
interchangably whereas you're saying that previously the driver would
allocate two channels to each speaker with duplicate data?
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