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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/codec.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/codec.txt index bce23a4a7875..db5f9c9ae149 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/codec.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/codec.txt @@ -1,22 +1,23 @@ -ASoC Codec Driver -================= +ASoC Codec Class Driver +======================= -The codec driver is generic and hardware independent code that configures the -codec to provide audio capture and playback. It should contain no code that is -specific to the target platform or machine. All platform and machine specific -code should be added to the platform and machine drivers respectively. +The codec class driver is generic and hardware independent code that configures +the codec, FM, MODEM, BT or external DSP to provide audio capture and playback. +It should contain no code that is specific to the target platform or machine. +All platform and machine specific code should be added to the platform and +machine drivers respectively. -Each codec driver *must* provide the following features:- +Each codec class driver *must* provide the following features:- 1) Codec DAI and PCM configuration - 2) Codec control IO - using I2C, 3 Wire(SPI) or both APIs + 2) Codec control IO - using RegMap API 3) Mixers and audio controls 4) Codec audio operations + 5) DAPM description. + 6) DAPM event handler. Optionally, codec drivers can also provide:- - 5) DAPM description. - 6) DAPM event handler. 7) DAC Digital mute control. Its probably best to use this guide in conjunction with the existing codec @@ -64,26 +65,9 @@ struct snd_soc_dai_driver wm8731_dai = { 2 - Codec control IO -------------------- The codec can usually be controlled via an I2C or SPI style interface -(AC97 combines control with data in the DAI). The codec drivers provide -functions to read and write the codec registers along with supplying a -register cache:- - - /* IO control data and register cache */ - void *control_data; /* codec control (i2c/3wire) data */ - void *reg_cache; - -Codec read/write should do any data formatting and call the hardware -read write below to perform the IO. These functions are called by the -core and ALSA when performing DAPM or changing the mixer:- - - unsigned int (*read)(struct snd_soc_codec *, unsigned int); - int (*write)(struct snd_soc_codec *, unsigned int, unsigned int); - -Codec hardware IO functions - usually points to either the I2C, SPI or AC97 -read/write:- - - hw_write_t hw_write; - hw_read_t hw_read; +(AC97 combines control with data in the DAI). The codec driver should use the +Regmap API for all codec IO. Please see include/linux/regmap.h and existing +codec drivers for example regmap usage. 3 - Mixers and audio controls @@ -127,7 +111,7 @@ Defines a stereo enumerated control 4 - Codec Audio Operations -------------------------- -The codec driver also supports the following ALSA operations:- +The codec driver also supports the following ALSA PCM operations:- /* SoC audio ops */ struct snd_soc_ops { |