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A brief overview of how the components of the API fit together. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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ASoC jack detection
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ALSA has a standard API for representing physical jacks to user space,
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the kernel side of which can be seen in include/sound/jack.h. ASoC
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provides a version of this API adding two additional features:
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- It allows more than one jack detection method to work together on one
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user visible jack. In embedded systems it is common for multiple
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to be present on a single jack but handled by separate bits of
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hardware.
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- Integration with DAPM, allowing DAPM endpoints to be updated
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automatically based on the detected jack status (eg, turning off the
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headphone outputs if no headphones are present).
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This is done by splitting the jacks up into three things working
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together: the jack itself represented by a struct snd_soc_jack, sets of
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snd_soc_jack_pins representing DAPM endpoints to update and blocks of
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code providing jack reporting mechanisms.
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For example, a system may have a stereo headset jack with two reporting
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mechanisms, one for the headphone and one for the microphone. Some
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systems won't be able to use their speaker output while a headphone is
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connected and so will want to make sure to update both speaker and
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headphone when the headphone jack status changes.
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The jack - struct snd_soc_jack
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This represents a physical jack on the system and is what is visible to
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user space. The jack itself is completely passive, it is set up by the
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machine driver and updated by jack detection methods.
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Jacks are created by the machine driver calling snd_soc_jack_new().
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snd_soc_jack_pin
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These represent a DAPM pin to update depending on some of the status
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bits supported by the jack. Each snd_soc_jack has zero or more of these
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which are updated automatically. They are created by the machine driver
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and associated with the jack using snd_soc_jack_add_pins(). The status
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of the endpoint may configured to be the opposite of the jack status if
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required (eg, enabling a built in microphone if a microphone is not
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connected via a jack).
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Jack detection methods
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======================
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Actual jack detection is done by code which is able to monitor some
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input to the system and update a jack by calling snd_soc_jack_report(),
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specifying a subset of bits to update. The jack detection code should
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be set up by the machine driver, taking configuration for the jack to
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update and the set of things to report when the jack is connected.
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Often this is done based on the status of a GPIO - a handler for this is
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provided by the snd_soc_jack_add_gpio() function. Other methods are
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also available, for example integrated into CODECs. One example of
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CODEC integrated jack detection can be see in the WM8350 driver.
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Each jack may have multiple reporting mechanisms, though it will need at
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least one to be useful.
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Machine drivers
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These are all hooked together by the machine driver depending on the
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system hardware. The machine driver will set up the snd_soc_jack and
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the list of pins to update then set up one or more jack detection
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mechanisms to update that jack based on their current status.
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