On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:30:29PM -0700, Patrick Lai wrote:

> that as system attempts to enter suspend while DAILINK X is active,
> snd_soc_suspend() calls snd_soc_dapm_stream_event(
> SND_SOC_DAPM_STREAM_SUSPEND) on inactive DAILINK Y since DAILINK Y
> ignore flag is not set. Consequently, CODEC widgets get powered off
> even though they should remain powered for DAILINK X.

This sounds like expected behaviour, if the widgets aren't marked as
ignoring suspend then they will be suspended.

> 1. Should soc-core check if CODEC DAI is active beside checking
> ignore_suspend flag before calling snd_soc_dapm_stream_event()?
> I checked latest soc-core.c from kernel 3.4 RC7. The logic is the same
> as 3.0

No, the whole point here is to suspend.  If we did that we'd never
suspend any active streams.