From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Liam Girdwood Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ASoC: Add signal generator widget type Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:55:14 +0000 Message-ID: <1322754914.4712.5.camel@odin> References: <1322686625-16488-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <1322753220.4712.2.camel@odin> <20111201153050.GA28076@sirena.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog115.obsmtp.com (na3sys009aog115.obsmtp.com [74.125.149.238]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA6624133 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:55:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-ee0-f44.google.com with SMTP id r51so2035559eea.17 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:55:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111201153050.GA28076@sirena.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Mark Brown Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 15:30 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:27:00PM +0000, Liam Girdwood wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 20:57 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > > A signal generator behaves as an input would but is not considered for > > > any of the special behaviour associated with external input pins. This > > > is especially useful when automatically working out not connected widgets. > > > Would this not be an output type ? > > It's a signal source - in terms of the DAPM graph and figuring out a > route from an input to an output it's an input. Ah, OK - I'm thinking here of an internal signal generator (i.e. coming from within platform/codec). e.g. we could add a simple sine wave generator to OMAP4 ABE for test/debug purposes. Regards Liam