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From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asoc: add dummy codec
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:41:23 +0200
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On 04/11/2013 12:36 PM, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> The attached patch adds a dummy codec for the
> asoc subsystem.
> I use it with the driver that programs the soc to drive
> I2S from an internal PLLs, and the audio then goes to
> HDMI, so no external codec is used.
> I've found spdif_transciever.c, which exactly is such a
> dummy driver, but it is bound to the particular plat
> device, so I made the device name a config option, and
> if not set, the plat device is created with the default
> name.
> 
> It may be possible to avoid the usage of the codec driver
> at all, but I haven't succeeded with this, and the existance
> of spdif_transciever.c suggests there is no such way.
> Thoughts?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@users.sourceforge.net>
> 

Hi,

There is already a dummy codec driver.

Please take a look at sound/soc/soc-utils.c

- Lars