From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: asoc device probing and dai question Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:25:16 +0000 Message-ID: <20101202112515.GA28575@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> References: <438BB0150E931F4B9CE701519A44630104BEE140D2@bgsmsx502.gar.corp.intel.com> <20101202110715.GD19267@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <438BB0150E931F4B9CE701519A44630104BEE140F8@bgsmsx502.gar.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com (opensource.wolfsonmicro.com [80.75.67.52]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E3E10384C for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 12:25:17 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <438BB0150E931F4B9CE701519A44630104BEE140F8@bgsmsx502.gar.corp.intel.com> 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: "Koul, Vinod" Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" , "Harsha, Priya" , Liam Girdwood List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 04:53:22PM +0530, Koul, Vinod wrote: > One thing which confused me is the soc-core, there the probe of codec and > platform are being called, what is the reason for that? This allows them to do any initialisation which requires the ALSA card to be present - the ALSA card is only created once the entire platform is ready.