Re: [PATCH 3/4] ASoC: amd: acp: Add machine driver that enables sound for systems with a ES8336 codec

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Mar 22 2023 - 17:28:02 EST


On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:48:28PM +0200, Marian Postevca wrote:

> Regarding playing the speaker and headphone simultaneously, is not
> something I took into account. Is this even a valid usecase? The intel driver
> for es8336 doesn't seem to support it.

Yes, for example consider a critical notification - the system
may wish to ensure it is audible even if the user has taken off
their headphones for some reason.

> >> This is needed because if suspending the laptop with the headphones
> >> inserted, when resuming, the sound is not working anymore. Sound stops
> >> working on speakers and headphones. Reinsertion and removals of the
> >> headphone doesn't solve the problem.

> >> This seems to be caused by the fact
> >> that the GPIO IRQ stops working in es8316_irq() after resume.

> > That's a bug that should be fixed.

> Agreed, but I don't know how easy it is to fix, and I would like to
> first offer users of these laptops a working sound driver.
> Afterwards this issue can be analyzed and properly fixed.

Surely if nothing else a good first step would be to have the
CODEC driver do whatever disabling the jack does on suspend
without needing the machine driver to bodge things?

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