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From: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: core: Add API to use DMI name in
 sound card long name
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:01:56 +0000
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On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 08:37 -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> > +
> > +     /* Add flavour to dmi long name */
> > +     if (flavour) {
> > +             strncat(card->dmi_longname, "-",
> > +                     sizeof(card->snd_card->longname));
> > +             strncat(card->dmi_longname, flavour,
> > +                     sizeof(card->snd_card->longname));
> > +     }
> 
> how is the 'flavour' defined? This doesn't seem to come from the DMI 
> decode information? Is this for example intended to be used with
> quirks?


Yes, it's intended for identifying quirks, different firmwares, etc

Liam