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From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 3/5] ASoC: core: add support to
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 12:03:37PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:

> Usually aux devices are used for things like analog amplifiers that
> clearly don't have a digital interface, thus it really makes no sense
> to have a DAI link connecting them. So I guess my question here
> would be what is the thinking on making the "smart amplifier" dailess?
> It feels like having a CODEC to CODEC DAI between the CODEC and
> the AMP would be a more obvious way to connect the two devices
> and would presumably avoid the issues being discussed around the
> patch.

Or is this a device where for some reason (consistency?) there
really is no DAI and someone has decided to make an analogue
amplifier with a soundwire control interface?

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