Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: soc-pcm: DPCM cares BE channel constraint

[Jerome Brunet]

On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 12:55 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:18:38PM +0200, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 18:25 +0900, jiada_wang@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > +	/* DPCM used FE & BE merged channel */
> > > +	unsigned int dpcm_merged_chan:1;
> > Jiada, Mark,
> > Do you think we could extend this flag to let the link choose whether the merge
> > should be performed on the codec dais (as done here) or on the backend cpu dais
> > ?
> > I have more less the same need as Jiada but since my card uses multicodec links,
> > merging on the codec dais does not work for me.
> > Like in soc_pcm_init_runtime_hw(), we can't enforce channels min/max based on
> > the codec when there is multiple codecs on the link.
> 
> Ugh, probably that'd work.  The ideal thing would be to remove DPCM but
> we're stuck with it for the time being :(

>From comment here and in other mails, I get that you are not big fan of DPCM :)
It is indeed a complex beast ...

It there anything else we can use to represent audio routing within the SoC ?
The SoC I'm working on make heavy use of this, unfortunately.