[PATCH v2 2/2] ALSA: usb-audio: let the M62's outputs say what they listen to

From: Mikhail Gavrilov

Date: Sun Aug 23 2026 - 10:25:04 EST


Each output on this card has a source selector: it can take one of the
three internal mixes, or any input, or any playback bus straight from
USB. Which it is decides everything downstream -- point the headphones
at a playback bus and the card's mixer leaves the path entirely, along
with every question about what is summed into it.

That matters more here than it would elsewhere. There is no control
panel for the M62 on Linux, so a user who never runs the vendor's
application on another machine has no way to see or change this, and
inherits whatever the card was last told. One enumerated control per
output gives them the whole choice, and it does so without exposing the
sixty-cell mixer matrix, which without a graphical representation would
confuse far more than it helps.

The item list has "Unknown" first, and it is deliberate rather than
tidy: THE DEVICE NEVER REPORTS A SELECTOR. Not to this driver, and not
to the vendor's own application, which on connect pushes its entire
workspace to the card rather than asking it anything. So the current
setting cannot be learned at probe, and saying so is the only honest
thing a control can do until a hand has chosen. Selecting "Unknown" is
refused, since it is a report and not a choice.

The numbering the card uses has a hole where 4 and 5 would be, so the
item index and the value written are kept as separate tables rather
than one being computed from the other.

Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/usb/mixer_topping.c | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 125 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/usb/mixer_topping.c b/sound/usb/mixer_topping.c
index 3405f28dec66..029f54865e22 100644
--- a/sound/usb/mixer_topping.c
+++ b/sound/usb/mixer_topping.c
@@ -125,6 +125,45 @@ static const struct topping_ctl_desc topping_m62_ctls[] = {
topping_tlv_out_0 },
};

+/*
+ * WHAT AN OUTPUT CAN LISTEN TO. The same numbering serves the outputs
+ * and the loopback returns, and it has a hole where 4 and 5 would be,
+ * so the index of a control item is not the value the card wants and
+ * the two are kept side by side.
+ *
+ * "Unknown" is first and is not a choice: the device NEVER reports a
+ * selector, not to us and not to the vendor's own application, which
+ * pushes its whole workspace on connect rather than asking. So a
+ * driver cannot learn where an output is pointing, and the only honest
+ * thing it can show until a hand has chosen is that it does not know.
+ */
+static const char * const topping_sources[] = {
+ "Unknown", "Mix A", "Mix B", "Mix C", "IN 1", "IN 2", "IN 1+2",
+ "AUX", "BT", "OTG IN", "Playback 1/2", "Playback 3/4",
+ "Playback 5/6", "Playback 7/8", "Playback 9/10",
+};
+
+static const u8 topping_source_value[] = {
+ 0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
+};
+
+struct topping_enum_desc {
+ const char *name;
+ u8 target;
+ u8 prop;
+};
+
+/*
+ * The selector answers on ONE target of an output's pair, unlike the
+ * volume and the mute which must be written to both.
+ */
+static const struct topping_enum_desc topping_m62_enums[] = {
+ { "Headphone Playback Source", 0x64, 0x02 },
+ { "OTG Playback Source", 0x62, 0x02 },
+};
+
+#define TOPPING_NUM_ENUMS ARRAY_SIZE(topping_m62_enums)
+
struct topping_mixer {
struct usb_mixer_interface *mixer;
struct usb_interface *iface;
@@ -139,6 +178,7 @@ struct topping_mixer {
spinlock_t lock; /* guards val[] against the URB */
int *val;
struct snd_kcontrol **kctl;
+ int sel[TOPPING_NUM_ENUMS]; /* what a hand chose, or 0 */
};

static void topping_build(u8 *f, u8 target, u8 prop, s32 value)
@@ -312,6 +352,58 @@ static int topping_ctl_put(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl,
return 1;
}

+static int topping_sel_info(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl,
+ struct snd_ctl_elem_info *uinfo)
+{
+ return snd_ctl_enum_info(uinfo, 1, ARRAY_SIZE(topping_sources),
+ topping_sources);
+}
+
+static int topping_sel_get(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl,
+ struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol)
+{
+ struct usb_mixer_elem_info *elem = kctl->private_data;
+ struct topping_mixer *tm = elem->head.mixer->private_data;
+
+ ucontrol->value.enumerated.item[0] = tm->sel[elem->control];
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int topping_sel_put(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl,
+ struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol)
+{
+ struct usb_mixer_elem_info *elem = kctl->private_data;
+ struct topping_mixer *tm = elem->head.mixer->private_data;
+ const struct topping_enum_desc *d;
+ unsigned int item;
+ int err;
+
+ item = ucontrol->value.enumerated.item[0];
+ if (item >= ARRAY_SIZE(topping_sources))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (!item)
+ return -EINVAL; /* "Unknown" is a report, not a choice */
+ if (tm->sel[elem->control] == item)
+ return 0;
+
+ d = &topping_m62_enums[elem->control];
+ err = topping_send(tm, d->target, d->prop,
+ topping_source_value[item]);
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
+
+ tm->sel[elem->control] = item;
+ return 1;
+}
+
+static const struct snd_kcontrol_new topping_sel = {
+ .iface = SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_MIXER,
+ .access = SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_ACCESS_READWRITE,
+ .info = topping_sel_info,
+ .get = topping_sel_get,
+ .put = topping_sel_put,
+};
+
static const struct snd_kcontrol_new topping_ctl = {
.iface = SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_MIXER,
.access = SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_ACCESS_READWRITE |
@@ -354,6 +446,34 @@ static int topping_add_ctl(struct topping_mixer *tm, int idx)
return 0;
}

+static int topping_add_sel(struct topping_mixer *tm, int idx)
+{
+ struct usb_mixer_elem_info *elem;
+ struct snd_kcontrol *kctl;
+ int err;
+
+ elem = kzalloc_obj(*elem);
+ if (!elem)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ elem->head.mixer = tm->mixer;
+ elem->head.id = 0;
+ elem->control = idx;
+ elem->channels = 1;
+ elem->val_type = USB_MIXER_BESPOKEN;
+
+ kctl = snd_ctl_new1(&topping_sel, elem);
+ if (!kctl) {
+ kfree(elem);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ kctl->private_free = snd_usb_mixer_elem_free;
+ strscpy(kctl->id.name, topping_m62_enums[idx].name,
+ sizeof(kctl->id.name));
+
+ return snd_usb_mixer_add_control(&elem->head, kctl);
+}
+
static void topping_private_free(struct usb_mixer_interface *mixer)
{
struct topping_mixer *tm = mixer->private_data;
@@ -479,6 +599,11 @@ int snd_topping_init(struct usb_mixer_interface *mixer)
if (err < 0)
return err; /* private_free cleans up */
}
+ for (i = 0; i < TOPPING_NUM_ENUMS; i++) {
+ err = topping_add_sel(tm, i);
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
+ }

err = usb_submit_urb(tm->urb, GFP_KERNEL);
if (err < 0) {
--
2.55.0