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From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Subject: Re: SPI PCM capture device examples please
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:36:58 +0100
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On 11/14/2013 03:12 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Matt Flax wrote:
>>> Is it possible to write an ALSA driver for a device which already has an SPI driver ?
> 
> Yes, this is possible.
> 
> Audio codecs typcially do not use SPI, so no such driver has been
> written yet.
> 
>> I guess that IIO support for ASLA is not on the cards ?
> 
> Well, that depends on whether you are going to write that driver ...

There is already a IIO driver for this part. So if you really wanted to use
it using the ALSA userspace API the best solution would be to write a
generic IIO-to-ALSA bridge.

- Lars