ALSA: hda - Add hints for reconfig

This patch adds the "hints" for reconfiguring codecs.  The hints
are simply string arrays and can be freely used/parsed by the codec
patch.  The hints can be input via hwdep sysfs files.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_hwdep.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_hwdep.c
index f3400d75eba4..653da1d3e4df 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_hwdep.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_hwdep.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/pci.h>
 #include <linux/compat.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <sound/core.h>
 #include "hda_codec.h"
 #include "hda_local.h"
@@ -98,8 +99,16 @@ static int hda_hwdep_open(struct snd_hwdep *hw, struct file *file)
 
 static void clear_hwdep_elements(struct hda_codec *codec)
 {
+        char **head;
+        int i;
+
         /* clear init verbs */
         snd_array_free(&codec->init_verbs);
+        /* clear hints */
+        head = codec->hints.list;
+        for (i = 0; i < codec->hints.used; i++, head++)
+                kfree(*head);
+        snd_array_free(&codec->hints);
 }
 
 static void hwdep_free(struct snd_hwdep *hwdep)
@@ -131,6 +140,7 @@ int __devinit snd_hda_create_hwdep(struct hda_codec *codec)
 #endif
 
         snd_array_init(&codec->init_verbs, sizeof(struct hda_verb), 32);
+        snd_array_init(&codec->hints, sizeof(char *), 32);
 
         return 0;
 }
@@ -280,6 +290,29 @@ static ssize_t init_verbs_store(struct device *dev,
         return count;
 }
 
+static ssize_t hints_store(struct device *dev,
+                           struct device_attribute *attr,
+                           const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+        struct snd_hwdep *hwdep = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+        struct hda_codec *codec = hwdep->private_data;
+        char *p;
+        char **hint;
+
+        if (!*buf || isspace(*buf) || *buf == '#' || *buf == '\n')
+                return count;
+        p = kstrndup_noeol(buf, 1024);
+        if (!p)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+        hint = snd_array_new(&codec->hints);
+        if (!hint) {
+                kfree(p);
+                return -ENOMEM;
+        }
+        *hint = p;
+        return count;
+}
+
 #define CODEC_ATTR_RW(type) \
         __ATTR(type, 0644, type##_show, type##_store)
 #define CODEC_ATTR_RO(type) \
@@ -296,6 +329,7 @@ static struct device_attribute codec_attrs[] = {
         CODEC_ATTR_RW(name),
         CODEC_ATTR_RW(modelname),
         CODEC_ATTR_WO(init_verbs),
+        CODEC_ATTR_WO(hints),
         CODEC_ATTR_WO(reconfig),
         CODEC_ATTR_WO(clear),
 };