Re: [PATCH] Add default config for tegra-alc5632 (as found on paz00)

[Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>]

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On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 04:54:04PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote:

> Since alsa-lib config file describes how to best deal with the
> combination of chips rather than a particular notebook name
> (especially given same device can have different names from different
> vendors and at the same time some vendors are ill-minded enough to
> call different devices with the same name) it would seem more logical
> to stick to the chips' names.

That needn't follow - especially as you move into the higher end the
devices get much more flexible and system concerns have a major impact
on the configuration so the board in use becomes more and more
important.

> Mark, do you have some idea how to solve the issue at hand (having
> dmix on this netbook by default) better? Is quantity of maximum
> simultaneous playback/record PCM streams already queryable by the
> userspace? Somehow it happened that adding per-device config file was
> ok during all these years, is there a better way now?

For almost all devices there's one stream supported in each direction,
if we were assuming any default that'd be it.

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